1. The Factional Causes and Religious Consequences of Politics

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Politics of Islam 1
5. 1. The Factional Causes and Religious Consequences of Politics 17
6. 2. A Shi’a Theory of the State 32
7. 3. The “Islamic” Revolution 60
8. 4. Institutionalizing Velayat-e Faqih 89
9. 5. The Hostage Crisis: The Untold Account of the Communist Threat 111
10. 6. Religion and Elite Competition in the Iran–Iraq War 147
11. 7. The Metamorphosis of Islamism After the War 186
12. 8. The Factional Battle Over Khomeini’s Velayat-e Faqih 205
13. 9. Media, Religion, and the Green Movement 227
14. 10. Historical Revisionism and Regional Threats 256
15. 11. The Domestic Sources of Nuclear Politics 273
16. Conclusion 299
17. Notes 309
18. Index 361