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Introduction -- Saud al-Sarhan, The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia; and Faisal Abullhassan, Johns Hopkins University, USA -- Part I The Concept of Political Quietism: Its Problematics and the Islamic Context -- 1 Making Sense of "Political Quietism" - An Analytical Intervention -- Jan-Peter Hartung, University of Gottingen, Germany -- 2 Expressions of Political Quietism in Islamic History -- Ebrahim Moosa, University of Notre Dame, USA; and Nicholas Roberts, Sewanee: The University of the South, USA -- Part II Political Quietism in Classical Islam -- 3 The Rightly-Guided Caliphs: The Range of Views Preserved in Hadith -- Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK; and Christopher Melchert, University of Oxford, UK -- 4 "Patience in Our Situation Is Better than Sedition": The Shift to Political Quietism in the Sunni Tradition -- Saud al-Sarhan, The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia -- 5 Quietism and Political Legitimacy in Imami Shi'i Jurisprudence: al-Sharif al-Murtada's Treatise on the Legality of Working for the Government Reconsidered -- Robert Gleave, University of Exeter, UK -- Part III Political Quietism in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Thought -- 6 "I'm Only a Village Farmer and a Dervish": Between Political Quietism and Spiritual Leadership: Early Modern Shi'i Sufism and the Challenge of Modernity -- Alessandro Cancian, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK -- 7 Legal Discourses on Hijra in the Caucasus after the Fall of the Caucasus Imamate: Risalat al-sharifa by the Dagestani Scholar 'Abd al-Rahman al-Thughuri -- Mogamed Gizbulaev, Princeton University, USA -- 8 Constitutionalism as Quietist Strategy: The Case of Tunisia -- Jeremy Kleidosty, University of Helsinki, Finland -- 9 "Dropping a Thick Curtain of Forgetting and Disregard": Modern Shi'i Quietism Beyond Politics -- Rainer Brunner, The French National Center for Scientific Research, France.