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 Göttingen, 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 10 - Public Piety and the Politics of Preaching Among Female Preachers in Riyadh Laila Makboul, University of Oslo, Norway 11 - The Gülen Movement in Azerbaijan: Political Quietism or Taqiyya? Fuad Aliyve, ADA University, Azerbaijan 12 - The Neo-Traditionalist Critique of Modernity and the Production of Political Quietism Walaa Quisay, University of Oxford, UK.