Harvard University Press, 1980), is outstanding. Also his
essay “The Iranian Re Volution: Five Frames for
Understanding,” in Critical Moments in Religious History,
ed. Kenneth Keulman (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University
Press, 1993) and, in collaboration with Mehdi Abedi,
Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and
Tradition (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1990).
Nikki Keddie ’s Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Re
Volution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003) is
rightfully regarded as essential reading, as should be
almost all the essays in an anthology edited by Keddie:
Religion and Politics in Iran: Shi’ism from Quietism to Re
Volution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).
Ali Shariati’s lectures can be found in translation at
http://www.shariati.com. His most inɻuential lectures have
been published in English as What Is to Be Done: The
Enlightened Thinkers and an Islamic Renaissance
(Houston: Institute for Research and Islamic Studies,
1986) and as Red Shi’ism (Teheran: Hamdani
Foundation, 1979). His lectures on Hussein and
martyrdom can be found in Jihad and Shahadat: Struggle
and Martyrdom in Islam, ed. Mehdi Abedi and Gary
Legenhausen (North Haledon, N.J.: Islamic Publications
International, 1986).
Ashura Rituals and Karbala Imagery