Introduction: Shi'ite Islam as a World Religion, its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action PART 1. FORMATION OF SHI'ITE ISLAM AS A WORLD RELIGION OF SALVATION : IMAMATE, OCCULTATION AND THEODICY 1 Origins and Development of Apocalyptic Messianism in Early Islam 2 The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi'ism 3 Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation 4 The Consolation of Theology : Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism 5 Shi'ite Theodicy : Martyrdom and the Meaning of Suffering Part 2. Shi'ite Religion and the Structure of Domination in Iran 6 Hierocratic Authority in Shi'ism and the Transition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran 7 Three Decrees of Shah Tahmasp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shi'ite Iran 8 Political Ethic and Public Law in the First half of the Nineteenth Century 9 Imam Khomeini and the Constitution of the Rule of God in Contemporary Iran PART 3. THE BEARERS OF SHI'ITE ISLAM AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATION 10 Hosayn b. Ruh al-Nawbakhti, the Third Emissary of the Hidden Imam 11 The Clerical Estate and the Emergence of a Shi'ite Hierocracy in Safavid Iran 12 The Office of Mulla-Bashi in Shi'ite Iran 13 Shi'ite Jurists and Iran's Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century Part 4. Shi'ite Islam and the Motivation of Sociopolitical Action: Revolution and Constitution 14 The Rise of Shah Esmail as a Mahdist Revolution 15 Religious Extremism (Ghuluww), Sufism and Sunnism in Safavid Iran: 1501-1722 16 Ideological Revolution in Shi'ism 17 Shi'ite Islam and the Revolution in Iran 18 Shi'ite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran 19 Shi'ite Dissent in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution | 
