Contents

img

PREFACE

A Note on Transliteration

Prologue     A Shi‘i-Led Reformation

Chapter 1     The Burden of the Past

Chapter 2     Containment Politics in the Persian Gulf

Chapter 3     The Struggle for Power in Iraq

Chapter 4     The Revival of Shi‘ism in Lebanon

Chapter 5     Between Aspirations and Reality

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Index