Shi'ism: a religion of protest

Doctrinal foundation. Death of a prophet

Birth of a revolutionary faith

The Karbala complex

Historical unfolding. In the battlefields of history

In the company of kings, caliphs, and conquerors

At the dawn of colonial modernity

Visual and performing arts. Shi'ism and the crisis of cultural modernity

On ressentiment and the politics of despair

Toward an aesthetics of emancipation

Contemporary contestations. Toward a new syncretic cosmopolitanism

The un/making of a politics of despair

Contemporary sites of contestation.