Authority and political culture in Shi'ism / edited by Said Amir Arjomand.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Shiʻism, authority, and political culture / Said Amir Arjomand -- Imam and community in the pre-Ghayba period / Etan Kohlberg -- The evolution of popular eulogy of the Imams among the Shiʻa / Mohammad-Djaʻfar Mahdjoub ; translated and adapted by John R. Perry -- The Mujtahid of the age and the Mullā-bāshī: an intermediate stage in the institutionalization of religious authority in Shiʻite Iran / Said Amir Arjomand -- In between the Madrasa and the marketplace: the designation of clerical leadership in modern Shiʻism / Abbas Amanat -- Constitutionalism and clerical authority / Abdol Karim Lahidji -- Sharīʻat Sangalajī: a reformist theologian of the Ridạ̄ Shāh period / Yann Richard ; translated by Kathryn Arjomand -- Ideological revolution in Shiʻism / Said Amir Arjomand --

An annotated bibliography on government and statecraft / Mohammad-Taqi Danishpazhouh ; translated and adapted by Andrew Newman -- Allama al-ٌHilli on the Imamate and Ijtihad / translated and edited by John Cooper -- Two decrees of Shah ٌTahmasp concerning statecraft and the authority of Shaykh Ali al-Karaki /translated and edited by Said Amir Arjomand -- The Muqaddas al-Ardabili on Taqlid / translated and edited by John Cooper -- Two seventeenth-century Persian tracts on kingship and rulers / translated and edited by William C. Chittick -- Lives of prominent nineteenth-century 'Ulama' from Tunika-buni's Qisas al-'Ulama' /translated and edited by Hamid Dabashi -- An exchange between a Mujtahid and a Qajar official / translated by Hamid Dabashi -- Two clerical tracts on constitutionalism / translated and edited by Hamid Dabashi -- Clerical authority in the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.