In this Issue

Table of Contents

Articles

Philosophy and Shi͑ism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Oliver Leaman
pp. 5-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0001
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The Study of Shi͑i Islam in Western Academia

Liyakat Takim
pp. 17-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0003
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Right to Offense, Right to Shiaphobia: A Rhetorical Analysis of Yasir Qadhi’s Framings of Offense

Shereen Yousuf
pp. 39-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0005
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Struggling with Political Limitation: Shaykh al-Mufīd’s Approach to Shi͑i Juristic Authority

Ali Ahmad Rasekh
pp. 63-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0007
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Book Reviews

An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 5: From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century ed. by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi (review)

Muhammad U. Faruque
pp. 95-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0009
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Female Personalities in the Qur͗an and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi͑i Islam by Rawand Osman (review)

Asma Sayeed
pp. 100-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0010
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Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft ed. by Mehrzad Boroujerdi (review)

Antony Black
pp. 106-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0000
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The Shi͑ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism and Hizbullah’s Islamists by Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab (review)

Jehan Saleh Al-Azzawi
pp. 109-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0002
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The Other Saudis: Shiism Dissent and Sectarianism by Toby Matthiesen (review)

Alexander Khaleeli
pp. 114-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0004
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Book Notes

pp. 119-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0006
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Transliteration

p. 125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/isl.2016.0008
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