Prologue -- The Shiʻites and Grand Liban -- Education, modernism, and anticolonial struggle -- Communists in the Ulama's homes : economic shifts, religious culture, and the state -- The "Shiʼite communist," the clerical movement, and the Islamists in Iraq -- Shiʻite discontent : Sayyid Musa al-Sadr and the Left -- Political Islam and the formation of Hizbullah -- The Islamists and civil society -- The Islamists : modernity and predicament of the nation-state -- Conclusion
