Table of Contents
Introduction Iranian Sunnism and the Deoband Connection A Heritage of the Subcontinent's Modern Jihads A Still Embryonic State of the Art Geopolitical Approaches and the 'Mad Max Option' Geography Revisiting the Sunni-Shia Divide Political History and the Modern Re-Inventions of Tribalism Some Prospect Proposals Ibn Khaldun, Tribalism and Frontier Islam Minority Ulama and Republic-Building Confessional Marginality and the Issue of Resistance Chapter 1 - History and Memory 1.1 - The Baluch of Iran in Imperial Vision 1.1.A - Topography of a Tribal Zone 1.1.B - A Documentary Draught? 1.2 - Fragments of a Baluch Discourse 1.2.A - Literary Jihad in Modern Retrospect 1.2.B - In Quest of New Heroes, from Epic to Hagiology Chapter 2: Modernisation vs. Secularisation 2.1 - Literature as Politics 2.1.A - The Tentative Sociology of a Literary Who's Who 2.1.B - The Discursive Hegemony of Cyber Madrasas 2.2 - Confessional vs. Tribal Identity? 2.2.A - Tribal Leaders after 1928: Co-Optation or Death? 2.2.B - The Construction of a Sunni-Shia Demographic Divide Chapter 3 - From Tribal to Global to . . . Tribal? 3.1 - Early Modern Tribal Patronages 3.1.A - The Heritage of Sufism and Tribal Chieftainships 3.1.B - The Complex Memory of the Early Modern Islamic Schools 3.2 - Alternative and Official Tribunes: The Modern Madrasas 3.2.A - Centrality of Sarbaz and of the Isma'ilzayi Tribe 3.2.B - A Founding Drama: The Anti-Dhikri Jihad of May 1936 3.3 - The Progression of the Deoband School in Iranian Baluchistan 3.3.A - Expanding the Sarbaz Nexus (1952-56) 3.3.B - Nascent Urbanities, Trans-Tribal Clienteles Chapter 4 - After 1979: Sunni Orthodoxy as a Counterculture 4.1 -Adjusting to Iran 4.1.A - Deobandi Teaching in the Iranian Baluchi Interface 4.1.B - Persophonia and the Transfers of Modern Shia Thought 4.2 - The Contradictory Impacts of 1979 4.2.A - Mawlawi 'Abd al-'Aziz: Making a Pact with Khomeini 4.2.B - Mawlawi 'Abd al-Hamid between Jihad and Conflict Resolution 4.3 -Iran: A Major Sunni Hub? 4.3.A - Back to the Timurids: Khurasan since WWII 4.3.B - In Iran and Beyond, through the World Muslim League Chapter 5 - Since 1993: Despoiled Voters, Winning Lobbies 5.1 - Conservatives vs. Radicals 5.1.A - Counterinsurgency and the Agreements on National Unity 5.1.B - Obedient Protesters: Campaigning under Khamenei 5.2 - A Challenge from Within: The Muslim Brothers of Iran 5.2.A - Sunni Kurdish Counterculture, Iranian Soft Power 5.2.B - Deoband, the Brothers, the Tabligh and the Guide 5.3 - Towards Confessional Affirmative Action? 5.3.A - Reformist Commitments and the Sunni Support to Ruhani 5.3.B - Re-Negotiating the Grounds for the 2013 Election Conclusion Bibliography Glossary-index
