Sabrina Mervin: Sabrina Mervin is a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the co-director of the IISMM (Institut d'études de l'Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman). She worked at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut, from 2004 to 2008. A historian in Islam and contemporary Shiism, she is the author of several books and articles on the topic.

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Introduction 9
Sabrina Mervin

Part One: The Export of the Revolution and National Integrations
1. The Impact of the Iranian Revolution on the Middle East 29
Olivier Roy
2. Islamism among the Shi'a of Afghanistan:
from Social Revolution to Identity-Building 45
Alessandro Monsutti
3. The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Utopias
in the Gulf Monarchies 63
Laurence Louër
4. Hezbollah's Conception of the Islamic State 89
Joseph Alagha
5. Hezbollah Seen through its Images:
the Representation of the Martyr 115
Kinda Chaib

Part Two: Constructing Shi'ism
6. Shi'isms under Construction:
the Shi'a community of Turkey in the Contemporary Era 139
Thierry Zarcone
7. Shi'ism in post-Soviet Azerbaijan:
between Iranian Influence and Internal Dynamics 167
Bayram Balci
8. The Ironis in post-Soviet Uzbekistan:
the Virtues of Mental Dissimulation (taqiyya) in a
Context of Sunnitization 193
Boris Pétric
9. Shi'a Lebanese Migrants and Senegalese Converts in Dakar 215
Mara A. Leichtman

Part 3: Which Iranian Model
10. The Sadrists in Iraq:
Challenging the United States, the Marja'iyya and Iran 255
Pierre-Jean Luizard
11. The Sadrist Trend:
Class Struggle, Millenarianism and fitna 281
Peter Harling and Hamid Yassin Nasser

12. Between Pakistan and Qom:
Shi'a Women's Madrasas and New Transnational Networks 303
Mariam Abou Zahab
13. Transnational Intellectual Debates 321
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Glossary 347

Index 353