Table of Contents:
Introduction: Iran in Expectation of (the End of) Light
Part I: Ancient Iran: The Solar Sources of the World Empire
Chapter 1: The Indo-Europeans
Chapter 2: The Indo-European Element
Chapter 3: Ancient Persian Noology
Chapter 4: The Zoroastrian Historial: Three World Epochs
Chapter 5: Aryan Man
Chapter 6: The Battle for Khvarenah
Part II: The Second Kingdom and its Echoes
Chapter 7: The Idea of Empire
Chapter 8: The Achaemenis: The Creation of Empire
Chapter 9: Iran and Judaism
Chapter 10: Iran and Hellenism
Chapter 11: Sassanid Iran
Chapter 12: The Explicit Logos of Iran
Part III: Islamic Iran
Chapter 13: The First Stage of Islamization and the Iranian Rendition
Chapter 14: The Iranian Factor in the Abassid Caliphate
Chapter 15: Al-Falasifa and the Meeting of Persians and Greeks
Part IV: The Persians and at–Tasawwuf
Chapter 16: Inner Islam and the Persians
Chapter 17: The Sufi Apotheosis of Love
Chapter 18: The Ausdruck Stage in the History of Sufism
PART V: Iran and Shia
Chapter 19: The Foundations of Shi’ism
Chapter 20: The Dual-Leveled Topography of Shi’ism: Nubuvvat and Valayat
Chapter 21: The Seveners: The Open and Secret Empires
Chapter 22: The Fallen Logos of Isma’ilism
Chapter 23: ʿIshraq: Shahab Yahya Suhrawardi
Part VI: After the Abbasids
Chapter 24: The Post-Abbasid Historial of Iran
Chapter 25: The Philosophy of Iranian Existentialism
Part VII: Iran in Modernity
Chapter 26: Shi’ite Iran under the Qajar Dynasty
Chapter 27: The Darkness of the West and the Shi’ite Revolution of Light
Conclusion: Global Iran
