The Spiritual Stance of the Shi‘a Imams [2-15]
M. S. Bahmanpour

The Concept of ‘Love’ in Transcendent Philosophy: A Comparison between Mulla Sadra and Plato [16-39]
S. K. Toussi

The Relation between Religion and the State: An Islamic Point of View [40-51]
H. Ayatollahy

The Imamate: The Esoteric Dimension of Prophecy (Nubuwwah) [52-74]
K. Aghili

Discriminating between Inequalities: John Rawls and Ayatullah Muhammad Baqir Sadr on Distributive Justice [76-94]
Ruhollah Bockmier

Custodians of Sacred Ground: The Mutawallis of Safavid Iran’s Major Shi‘a Shrines in the Administrative Handbook Dastur al-Muluk [96-116 ]
M. I. Marcinkowski

Book Reviews [118-121]

The Encyclopaedic Aspect of Bihar al-Anwar (Part I) [1-17]
Rasul Jafarian

One, Living, Reasonable: The God of Christianity and Islam [19-32]
Michael Ipgrave

Bada: Change in Divine Destiny and Decree [33-42]
Afzal Sumar

Husayn Ardabili: The First Narrator of Jafari Thought in Persian [43-58]
Najib Mayil-Hiravi

The Inclusion of Ali ibn Abi Talib in the Adhan [59-73]
Mohammad Hakimelahi

The Pedagogy of Imam Ali [75-86]
Hamid Reza Alavi

The Hawzah Ilmiyyah of Qum and the Production of Religious Knowledge in the Contemporary Era [87-95]
Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour

Review: The Other Shiites: From the Mediterranean to Central Asia by Alessandro Monsutti, Silvia Naef, and Farian Sabahi (eds.), 2007 [97-102]
Rebecca Masterton

Review: Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction by Oliver Leaman, 2004 [103-106]
Ruhollah Bockmier

Articles

A Philosophical Solution for the Environmental Crisis [1-12]
Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad

Human Subjectivity: Consciousness and Action [13-43]
Mahmoud Khatami

Crescent Sighting in the Shi‘a Community: Roots and Ramifications of Controversy [45-54]
Mohammad Samiei

The Encyclopaedic Aspect of Bihar al-Anwar (Part II) [55-69]
Rasul Jafarian

Orientalist Assertions regarding the Inimitability of the Qur’an: A Critical Analysis [71-94]
Aaliya Gokal

Swinburne’s View of the Islamic Revelation [95-106]
Amir Dastmalchian

Book Reviews

Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basrī (d. 110 H/728 CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship by Suleiman Ali Mourad, 2006 [107-113]
Rebecca Masterton

The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr, 2007 [114-117]
Amina Inloes

Articles

Hermeneutics and the Unique Quest of Being: Henry Corbin’s Intellectual Journey [3-26]
Amélie Neuve-Eglise

An Essay on the Place of Tolerance in Islam [27-51]
Syed Latif Hussain Kazmi

A Branched Model for Substantial Motion [53-67]
Muhammad Legenhausen

A Study of the Verse of Mubahalah [69-83]
Muhammad Javad Reza’i
Mahdi Dasht Bozorgi

Quantifying Happiness: A Study of Shi‘a University Students in Kerman, Iran [85-101]
Hamid Reza Alavi

Book Reviews

Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think? by John L. Esposito & Dalia Mogahed, 2007 [103-107]
Mohammad E. Mesbahi

A Monumental Manifestation of the Shiite Faith in Late Twelfth-Century Iran: The Case of the Gunbad-i ‘Alawiyan, Hamadan by Raya Shani, 1996 [108-113]
Cleo Cantone

Articles

On the Transcendental Element of Life: A Recapitulation of Human Spirituality in Islamic Philosophical Psychology [121-140]
Mahmoud Khatami

The Concept of Spiritual Perfection according to Ibn Sina and Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi [141-158]
Mukhtar H. Ali

The Qur’anic Principle of Peace [159-180]
Hamid Hadji Haidar

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi: Character versus Controversy [181-193]
Amina Inloes

The Cross-Sectarian Call for Islam: A Sample of Shi‘a Reformist Thought [195-219]
Elisheva Machlis

Book Reviews

Shi‘a Sects (Kitab Firaq al-Shi‘a) by al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, trans. Abbas Kadhim, 2007 [221-226]
Ali Haider Abidi

Islam & Muslims: A Guide to Diverse Experience in a Modern World by Mark Sedgwick, 2006.[227-229]
Matthew Pierce

The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural, Institutional and Normative Challenges, ed. Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, 2006. [230-235]
Husam Al-Mallak

Articles

Communion, Synergy, Presence: Some Anglican Perspectives on Salvation [239-253]
Michael Ipgrave         
 
Between Traditional Law and the Exigencies of Modern Life: Shi‘a Responses to Contemporary Challenges in Islamic Law [255-271]
Mohammad Samiei

The Theory of Islamic Governance in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Political Thought [273-284]
Mansour Mirahmadi

Multi-Subjectivism and Quasi-Objectivism in Tabari’s Qur’anic Hermeneutics [285-305]
Abdul Rahim Afaki

Conceptual Approaches in Contemporary Iranian Religious Reformism [307-326]
Bijan Abdolkarimi

Book Reviews

Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt by Jonathan M. Bloom, 2007. [327-332]
Delia Cortese

Mahdis and Millenarians: Shi’ite Extremists in Early Muslim Iraq by William F. Tucker, 2008. [333-335]
Christine D. Baker

Breaking the Idols of Ignorance: Admonition of the Soi-Disant Sufi by Sadr al-Din Shirazi, trans. M. Dasht Bozorgi & F. Asadi Amjad, ed. S. K. Toussi, 2008. [336-341]
Ali Haider Abidi

British Muslim Converts: Choosing Alternative Lives by Kate Zebiri [342-346]
Liyakat Takim

Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence ed. Aziz Al-Azmeh & Effie Fokas, 2007. [347-349]
David Kuhrt

Book Symposium

Islamic Philosophy: A Living and Dynamic Tradition [359-368]
Ghulam Ali Haddad Adel

Mulla Sadra on ‘Substantial Motion’: A Clarification and a Comparison with Thomas Aquinas  [369-386]
David B. Burrell

Death and the Post-Mortem States of the Soul: A Comparison of Mulla Sadra with Swedenborg [387-400]
Latimah-Parvin Peerwani

A Critical Comparison of Cosmic Hierarchies in the Development of Christian and Islamic Mystical Theology [401-422]
Rebecca Masterton

Rethinking Being: From Suhravardi to Mulla Sadra [423-436]
Muhammad Kamal

The Central Importance of Spiritual Psychology in Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy [437-456]
Sayyed Khalil Toussi

 Book Reviews

Spiritual Psychology: The Fourth Intellectual Journey in Transcendent Philosophy – Volumes VIII & IX of The Asfar by Mulla Sadra Shirazi, trans. Latimah-Parvin Peerwani [457-460]
David B. Burrell

The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, From Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant by Michael Axworthy [461-466]
Jasim Husain

An Introduction to Islamic Philosophy by Massimo Campanini, trans. Caroline Higgitt [467-471]
W. Craig Streetman

The Challenge of Islam: Encounters in Interfaith Dialogue by Douglas Pratt [472-473]
Michael Ipgrave

 

Articles

Ayatollah Khomeini and the Concepts of Wilayah and Walayah[5-23]
Akiro Matsumoto

The Reception of Kant and his Philosophy in Iran [25-40]
Ali Paya & Malakeh Shahi

Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modern Times [41-57]
A. Ezzati

The Role of Eloquence in the Inimitability of the Qur’an [59-71]
Zoheir Ali Esmail

The Philosophy of Cultural Differences in the Qur’an [73-90]
Sobhi Rayan

On Liberation: An Essay on the Matter of Light [91-112]
David Kuhrt

Book Reviews

Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend by David Blow [113-115]
Oliver Leaman

An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine ed. Feras Hamza & Sajjad Rizvi, with Farhana Mayer [116-119]
Scott C. Lucas

L’esegesi musulmana del Corano nel secolo Ventesimo by Massimo Campanini [120-124]
Frank J. Gelli

Chosen Amongst Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi‘ite Islam by Mary F. Thurlkill [125-129]
C. T. R. Hewer

The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn [130-133]
Husam Al-Mallak

 

Articles

Reinterpretation or Reformation? Shi‘a Law in the West [141-165]
Liyakat Takim

The Purity of Non-Muslims in Shi‘a Jurisprudence [167-184]
Aaron Varricchio

Mahdawiyyah as Final Vocabulary: A Postmodernist Reading of Iran’s Foreign Policy Principles [185-199]
Mansoor L. Limba

An Analysis of Iqbal’s Humanistic Vision [201-230]
Syed Latif Hussain Kazmi

Book Reviews

Revelation and Falsification: The Kitab al-Qira’at of Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Sayyari, Critical Edition with an Introduction and Notes by Etan Kohlberg & Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, 2009 [231-233]
Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour

Opening the Qur’an: Introducing Islam’s Holy Book by Walter H. Wagner, 2008 [234-236]
Andrew Rippin

Keys to the Arcana: Shahrastani’s Esoteric Commentary on the Qur’an trans. Toby Mayer, 2009 [237-238]
Carl W. Ernst

The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology ed. Tim Winter, 2008 [239-241]
Kiki Kennedy-Day

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World ed. John L. Esposito, 2009[242-243]
Mohammad Samiei

The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran by Arzoo Osanloo, 2009 [244-248]
Paola Rivetti

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History by Ian J. Bickerton, 2009 [249-252]
Mohamad Nasrin Mohamad Nasir

Iranian Cinema and the Islamic Revolution by Shahla Mirbakhtyar, 2006 [253-254]
Michaël Abecassis

Articles

The Scholarly Contributions of Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju’fi [261-281]
Abbas Ahmadvand, Sayyed Hesamuddin Ale Yasin & Saeed Tavoosi Masroor

Hisham ibn al-Hakam: Arch Heretic? [283-299]
Alexander Hainy Khaleeli

Criticising the Critique: An Appraisal of al-Samawi’s Denigration of the Companions [301-311]
Abu-Bakr Imam Ali-Agan

The Role of the Shi‘a in Preserving and Disseminating the Story of Barlaam and Ioasaph [313-330]
Jalil Nozari

Shi‘ism in Turkey: A Comparison of the Alevis and the Ja‘faris [331-340]
Abdulkadir Yeler

Book Reviews

The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, 2006 [341-343]
Brannon Wheeler

Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies by Nader Hashemi, 2009 [344-347]
Hamid Algar

Shi‘ism in America by Liyakat Nathani Takim, 2009 [348-351]
Saliha Devoe

Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory by Syed Akbar Hyder, 2006 [352-356]
Mary Elaine Hegland

Al-Ghazali’s Philosophical Theology by Frank Griffel, 2009 [357-362]
Eric Ormsby

Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics: Modulation of Being by Sajjad H. Rizvi, 2009 [363-367]
Alparslan Açikgenç

Iranian Cinema: A Political History by Hamid Reza Sadr, 2006 [368-370]
Michaël Abecassis

 

Symposium on Sayyid M. H. Fadlallah

Surviving, Resisting and ‘Becoming Modern’: Experiences of Shi‘a Women in Lebanon [379-403]
Maria Holt

Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah and Shi‘a Youth in Lebanon [405-426]
Lara Deeb

The Religious and Political Impact of Sayyid M. H. Fadlallah on Arab Shi‘ism [427-441]
Hilal Khashan

Fadlallah: A Mainstream Radical [443-464]
Miqdaad Versi

Book Reviews

Fadlallah: The Making of a Radical Shi‘ite Leader by Jamal Sankari, 2005 [465-470]
Robert Riggs

Shi‘ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities by Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr, 2008 [471-475]
Morgan Clarke

Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi’ism by Abbas Amanat, 2009 [476-478]
Oliver Leaman

Martyrdom in Islam by David Cook, 2007 [479-484]
Nousheen Yousuf-Sadiq

Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry by Michael M. J. Fischer, 2004 [485-487]
Ghazzal Dabiri

Religious Extremism (Ghuluww): Intellectual and Doctrinal Deviance in Islam by Ne’matollah Salehi Najafabadi, trans. Hamid Mavani, 2009 [488-493]
Afzal Sumar

Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbari Shi‘i School by Robert Gleave, 2007 [494-497]
Liyakat Takim

The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam by Shabbir Akhtar, 2007 [498-501]
Amir Dastmalchian

 

Articles

War and Peace in the Islamic Sacred Sources [5-22]
Liyakat Takim

The Rite of the Water-Carrier: From the Circles of Sufis to the Rituals of Muharram [23-46]
Mojtaba Zarvani & Mohammad Mashhadi

Muslim Political Philosophy & the Affective Turn: Farabi on Language, Affect, and Reason [47-70]
Ali Altaf Mian

The ‘Invisible’ Islamic Community of Athens and the Question of the ‘Invisible’ Islamic Mosque [71-89]
Alexandros Sakellariou

Critical Notice: Shi‘a Islam in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World [91-104]
Mohammad Samiei

Book Reviews

Islam and Human Rights: Selected Essays of Abdullahi An-Na‘im ed. Mashood A. Baderin, 2010 [105-110]
Aneesa Sattar Silat

Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra on Existence, Intellect, and Intuition by Ibrahim Kalin, 2010 [111-114]
Latimah-Parvin Peerwani

Women and the Qur’an: A Study in Islamic Hermeneutics by Bahar Davary, 2009 [115-120]
Matthew Pierce

A Companion to the Muslim World by Amyn B. Sajoo, 2009 [121-123]
Andrew Rippin

Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law by Judith E. Tucker, 2008 [124-130]
Roxanne D. Marcotte

Textual Relations in the Qur’an: Relevance, Coherence and Structure by Salwa M. S. El-Awa, 2006 [131-135]
Abdul Rahim Afaki

Book Notes [137-140]

 

Articles

Tragedy, History and the Sacred: The Hujjah of Fatimat al-Zahra’ [147-162]
George William Warner

The Legitimacy of Party Politics and the Authority of the ‘Ulama’ in Iraq’s Shi‘a Islamist Movement: The Example of the Islamic Da‘wah Party (1957-1988) [163-182]
Florian Bernhardt

The Proof of the Veracious: An Exposition Based on ‘Allamah Tabataba’i’s Nihayat al-Hikmah [183-197]
Louis Medoff

An Examination of the Literary Miracle of the Qur’an as Evidence that a Science of Qur’anic Exegesis is Possible [199-217]
Fathullah Najarzadegan

Book Reviews

The Qur’an and its Biblical Subtext by Gabriel Said Reynolds, 2010 [219-222]
Oliver Leaman

A Poet of the Abbasid Period: Abu al-Qasim al-Zahi (‘Ali b. Ishaq b. Khalaf al-Zahi) 313-352 AH / 925-963 CE. His Life and Poetry annotated, edited and with an introduction by Khalid Sindawi, 2010 [223-224]
Andrew Rippin

Il trattato aureo sulla medicina attribuito all'imama ‘Ali al-Rida ed. Speziale Fabrizio & Giorgio Giurini, preface by Andrew Newman, 2009 [228-230]
Anna Vanzan

Science and Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood, 2009 [231-233]
Ali Paya

The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran by Arzoo Osanloo, 2009 [244-248]
Paola Rivetti

Introducing Islam by William Shepard, 2009 and An Introduction to Islam by David Waines, 2003 [234-239]
Amir Dastmalchian

Said Nursi by Colin Turner & Hasan Horkuc, 2009 [240-242]
Regina Rowland

Umar by Shibli Numani, 2004 [243-246]
Fahimeh Mokhber Dezfouli

Book Notes [247-249]

Articles

The Orientalism of Comte de Gobineau [257-264]
John Andrew Morrow

‘Allamah Tabataba’i on Intuitive Knowledge of the Self and its Consequences in Practical Wisdom [265-285]
Reza Akbarian & Nona Momeni

Antony Flew’s Deism: Critical Remarks on ‘My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism’ [283-294]
Muhammad Ali Abdullahi

Freedom and Justice in Musa Sadr’s Political Thought [295-310]
Sharif Lakzaei

Critical Notice: Apocalyptic Islam – A Response to Amanat [311-330]
Hamid Algar

Book Reviews

The Qur’an: Modern Muslim Interpretations by M. Campanini, trans. Caroline Higgitt, 2011 [331-335]
Paul Heck

The New Cambridge History of Islam general ed. Michael Cook, 2010 [336-340]
Wilferd Madelung

Resistance: The Essence of the Islamic Revolution by Alastair Crooke, 2009 [341-344]
Ali Paya

Mawsu‘at al-Imam al-Husayn fi al-Kitab wa al-Sunnah wa al-Tarikh by Muhammad Muhammadi Rayshahri, Sayyid Mahmud Tabataba’i Nizhad, and Sayyid Ruhullah Sayyid Taba’i, 2009 [345-348]
Mahmud Karimi

The Qur’an: An Encyclopedia ed. Oliver Leaman, 2008 [349-350]
Ali Altaf Mian

Oil, Islam and Conflict: Central Asia Since 1945 by William Shepard, 2009 [351-354]
Dagi Dagiev

Living Shi’ism: Instances of Ritualisation Among Islamist Men in Contemporary Iran by David Thurfjell, 2006 [355-360]
Alessandro Cancian

Book Notes [361-365]

Articles

Ayatollah Hadi al-Mudarrisi: ‘A Journey into the Depths of Space and Time’ [373-396]
R. P. Buckley

Tension between the Qur‘an and the Hadith: The Case of Offensive Jihad [397-414]
Hamid Mavani

Thomas Aquinas and Mulla Sadra on the Soul-Body Problem: A Comparative Investigation [415-428]
Reza Rezazadeh

Dawud al-Raqqi: A Critical Survey of his Role in the Propagation of Shi’a Teachings [429-446]
Amir Momeni Hezaveh, Abbas Ahmadvand, Saeed Tavoosi Masroor

Book Reviews

Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Din Mahmud al-Nayrizi and His Writings by Reza Pourjavady, 2011 [447-452]
Andrew J. Newman

Money in the Middle East and North Africa: Monetary Policy Frameworks and Strategies ed. D. Cobham & G. Dibeh, 2011; Islamic Entrepreneurship by R. Khayed & M. Hassan, 2011; Islamic Finance and Law: Theory and Practice in a Globalized World by M-H. Balala, 2011 ed. D. Cobham & G. Dibeh [453-456]
Oliver Leaman

Degrees of Excellence: A Fatimid Treatise on Leadership in Islam - A New Arabic Edition and English Translation of Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Naysaburi‘s Kitab Ithbat al-Imama ed. Arzina R. Lalani, 2010 [457-459]
Robert Gleave

Shi’i Trends and Dynamics in Modern Times (XVIIIth-XXth centuries) - Courants et dynamiques chiites à l’époque modern (XVIIIe-XXe siècles) ed. S. Mervin & D. Hermann, 2010 [460-466]
Miriam Younes

Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism: Selected Eastern Writings trans. Daniel O‘Donoghue ed. Geoffrey Nash, 2009 [469-471]
John Andrew Morrow

Militant Islam: A Sociology of Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences by Stephen Vertigans, 2009 [472-478]
Corri Zoli

Book Notes [479-482]