Progress Toward Islam: An Introduction to "The Constitutional Crisis of Islamic Civilization" By Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi - Page 13 Foreword: The Unsheathed Sword of the Imamate - Page 17 Introduction: A Potential That Refuses To Be Forgotten - Page 29 A Few Key Terms Page 33 A Framework, Limits, and Methodology Page 37 The Primary Interpretive Model - Page 46 On the Shoulders of Giants - Page 52 Between Possibility and Reality - Page 54 Wide Scope at the Expense of Depth - Page 57 The Bifurcation at Siffin - Page 63 The Return of False Conceptions - Page 70 Balancing Unity and Legitimacy - Page 71 Tired Comparisons and Ideas - Page 74 Terminal Institutional Fragility - Page 77 The Text and the Inspirational History - Page 78 Behind Sunni-fication and Shia-fication - Page 83 The Heart of Islamic Civilization - Page 85 The Sunnah as a Political Source - Page 91 An Opening in a Closed Road - Page 95 Part 1 - Authority over the Ruler: Fundamental Political Values - Page 103 Chapter 1: The Values of Political Development - Page 105 Enumerating and Ordering Values - Page 106 Eternal Political Questions - Page 109 The Honoring of the Human Being and His Stewardship - Page 113 The Destruction of Political Idolatry - Page 115 Inverting the Pharaonic Pyramid - Page 118 Balancing Justice and Favor - Page 122 The Necessity of Political Authority - Page 126 a. The Scriptural Basis - Page 126 b. The Consensual Basis - Page 132 c. The Intellectual Basis - Page 136 Freedom: Potential and Responsibility - Page 140 Justice in Rulings and Apportioning - Page 147 Wasting Social Rank - Page 152 Equality in Political Eligibility - Page 159 Consultation in Building Authority - Page 165 The Necessity of Political Representation - Page 170 Securing Political Allegiance - Pge 174 Adhering to the Majority and its Leader - Page 180 Obeying Legitimate Authority - Page 184 Preventing Desire for Power - Page 188 Preventing Corruption - Page 191 Chapter 2: The Values of Political Implementation - Page 195 Deferring to Allah and the Messenger - Page 196 Adhering to the Vast Majority - Page 202 Seizing the Hand of the Oppressor - Page 205 Public Funds are the Property of Allah - Page 210 Preventing Theft And Bribery - Page 216 Trustworthiness or Moral Qualification - Page 219 Power or Practical Efficiency - Page 224 Alignment or Political Diplomacy (Wisdom) - Page 227 Consultation in Decision-Making - Page 231 Advice from the Ruler and the Ruled - Page 237 The Shepherd''s Leniency with the Flock - Page 240 Preventing Withdrawal from the People - Page 243 Preventing Compulsion in Religion - Page 245 The Political Unity of the Ummah - Page 250 Part 2 - Authority Without Designation: The Exigencies of Time and Place - page 255 Chapter 3: The Emptiness at the Frontiers of Empire - page 257 Healthy Habits and Habitats - Page 259 The Pact Between Chaos and Tyranny - Page 262 "And Their Affairs Among Themselves Are Chaos" - Page 266 1 The Kingdoms of "False Formation" - Page 270 "There Was Never a King in Tihama" - Page 273 Islam and the Arab Personality - Page 275 From Selfishness to Sedition - Page 280 From Sedition to Reconciliation - Page 285 From Reconciliation to Monarchy - Page 287 The Moment That Values Flipped - Page 291 Power Against Trustworthiness - Page 297 Chaos Against Law - Page 301 You Came in the Way of Heraclius and with Elitism - Page 305 Landmarks of Political Apostasy- Page 312 First: Ibn Taymiyya''s Conception - Page 315 Second: Ibn Khaldun''s Conception - Page 319 Third: Mawdudi and Yaseen''s Conception - Page 320 Chapter 4: The Book of Allah and Ardashir''s Testament - Page 325 Two Facets to the Conquest of Iran - Page 326 The Pen of Islamic Civilization - Page 331 The Wilting of Ancient Democracies - Page 336 Islam Between Two Worlds - Page 339 Persia: Tamer of Its Conquerors - Page 342 Inclusion in the East - Page 346 Pioneers of First Contact - Page 351 The Triumph of Sassanid Values - Page 353 The Beginning of Cultural Breakthrough - Page 355 Tears on Vanishing Ruins - Page 358 Who is King Ardashir? - Page 362 A Heart Attached to Immortality - Page 369 What is the Testament of Ardashir? - Page 371 Competing with Islamic Values - Page 373 Solidifying Political Idolatry - Page 377 Using Religion While Claiming to Serve It - Page 382 Reinforcing Social Hierarchy - Page 388 Making Political Despotism Palatable - Page 392 The Islamization of Ardashir and His Testament- Page 395 The Solidity of the Monotheistic Shield - Page 398 A Tardy Pursuit of Independence - Page 402 Part 3 - Leaving Behind the Jurisprudence of Necessity: Enabling the Potential of the New Age - Page 405 Chapter 5: From Sedition to Revolution - Page 407 The Legacy of the Great Fitnah - Page 409 The Revolutions to Restore Consultative Rule - Page 411 Siffin and Latent Pessimism - Page 415 The Discourse of Duty and of Reality - Page 422 A Permit Based on Determination - Page 428 Shiite Jurisprudential Deviance - Page 432 The Consequence of Sacrificing Legitimacy - Page 438 The Accumulation of Institutional Rigidity - Page 441 Parting ways with the Legacy of Siffin - Page 446 Revolution: Its Meaning and Structure - Page 451 The Methodology of Preventative Reform - Page 458 A Path of Exhausting the Self - Page 461 The Example of the Three Revolutions - Page 467 Al-Kawakibi and the Logic of Revolutions - Page 470 Three Paths to Change - Page 476 Chapter 6: From Values to Measures Perturbation in Communication - Page 486 The End of Forced Secularism - Page 494 The Horizons of Political Monasticism - Page 497 The Embrace of the Religious and the Civil - Page 505 The Terminal Salafi Option - Page 513 Muslims and the Drafting of Constitutions - Page 517 Metrics for the Islamicity of the State - Page 521 The Two Conditions of Consultation and Reference - Page 528 Between Commitment and Coercion - Page 532 "Constitutions From Paper!" - Page 535 Islam''s Cultural Vigor - Page 538 The Investment of Western Motivation - Page 543 Planting in Our Cultural Soil - Page 548 The Limitations of Imperial Jurisprudence - Page 551 The Jurisprudence of Restriction and Discrimination - Page 557 Trivializing the Right to Life - Page 562 The Logic of the Nation State - Page 564 The New Nationalist Group - Page 569 Fairness for the Muslim Majorities - Page 573 Practical Formulations of Unity - Page 576 Preserving the Bonds of Historical Kinship - Page 579 Conclusion: Sheathing the Sword of the Imamate - Page 583 References - Page 589.