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Jean-Pierre Digard, « L'autre shi'isme... (note critique) », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1980.282660
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The other shi'ism... J.-P. Digard Iranian studies in France became highly reputed for the numerous and important studies on the history, dogma and philosophy of shi'ism which they have produced. Paradoxically, it would seem, one can scarcely find any elements in these works which would serve to clarify the current situation in Iran and the role played by religion in that country since 1978. It is as if two shi'isms — each a stranger to the other — could have coexisted there. Several recent works which are analyzed in this review article permit one to conclude that a new « Iranology », done by Iranian scholars, is beginning to emerge, one which will finally enables the western public to understand the "other" shi'ism whose existence has been made so evident by the Iranian revolution.