Le Shi[MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING]isme imamite quarante ans après. Hommage à Etan Kohlberg

Forty years later, Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi from École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne and Meir M. Bar-Asher and Simon Hopkins from the Hebrew University brought together a number of current experts on Islam and Shiism to publish a Festschrift in honour of Etan Kohlberg, one of today's leading experts on (classical) Shiite Islam, marking the fortieth anniversary of the anthology published in 1970. Because Le Shi[MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING]isme imamite quarante ans après is a hommage à Etan Kohlberg, it begins with a laudation by Frank H. Stewart, including Kohlberg's biography and emphasizing his scholarly achievements, as well as a list of publications. [...]yet importantly, the three remaining contributions attend to political developments in nineteenth-twenty-first century Iran and Iraq. [...]Richard gives a chronological overview of the life and intellectual development of Mojtahed Shabestari, one of the most interesting thinkers in contemporary Iran.