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Suggestions for Further Reading and Internet Resourc e s 3 1 7This volume contains the most complete compilation of primary texts onShi’ite political thought from both the premodern and the modern periodsup to the Revolution. The book is divided into sections on politics, history,and minorities, and a preface introduces each section.Shariati, Ali. 1980. M a rxism and Other We s t e rn Fallacies: An Islamic Critique.Translated by R. Campbell. Berkeley, CA: Mizan Press.This book is a collection of lectures and writings by Shariati, the major ideologueof the Iranian Revolution. It is an excellent example of his thought,showing how he employed modern Western philosophical notions in remakingtraditional Shi’ite thinking into a type of political ideology.Soroush, Abdol Karim. 2000. Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: EssentialWritings of ‘Abdolkarim Soro u s h . Translated, edited, and with a critical introductionby Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri. New York: Oxford University Press.This is currently the most complete English compilation of Abdol KarimS o r o u s h ’s works. It is necessary reading for any understanding of his reformistthought.Tabataba’i, Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn. 1977. Shi’ite Islam. Tr a n s l a t e dfrom the Persian, edited, and with an introduction and notes by Seyyed HosseinNasr. 2nd ed. Albany: State University of New York Press.This book is a felicitous summary of key notions of Shi’ite belief and practice,written by one of the greatest authorities in this tradition. Although thisbook does not discuss the politics that led to the Revolution, it does offer,from a practitioner’s perspective, a sense of what it means to be Tw e l v e rShi’ite. This is a beautiful indigenous complement to Heinz Halm’s morescholarly and contemporary presentation.Secondary SourcesArjomand, Said Amir. 1984. The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion,Political Ord e r, and Societal Change in Shi’ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.———. 2000. The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran. B r i d g e-w a t e r, NJ: Replica Books. Originally Oxford University Press, 1988.These two works are classics of sociological exposition on the role andmeaning of clergy in Iran from their appearance in the sixteenth century untilthe establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.Ayoub, Mahmoud. 1978. Redemptive Suffering in Islam: A Study of the Devotional