آوین

COLLECTED WORKS
of Dr. Ali SHARIATI
1. LETTERS TO THE INTIMATE ONES
Contents:
- To My Father (teacher and mentor), Wife and Child
- To Friends, Brothers and Sisters
- To you two, the Martyrs: O’ brother and Sister
- The Two Wills
- Last Writings
- Last words with you: O’ Omnipotent Divine Lord
- Copies of Some Original Scripts

2. THE EDUCATION OF A REVOLUTIONARY
- How to Persevere
- Mysticism, Justice and Liberty
- Love, Monotheism
- O, Freedom, Celebrate Freedom
- Education of a Revolutionary
- Inner-most Spiritual Reflections
- The Salutations of Prayer
- Horr, the Martyr
- The Momentous Night
- Ascension to the Heavens

3. ABU-DHAR
- Chapter 1: Abu-Dhar Ghafari
- Chapter 2: Once again Abu-Dhar (text)
- Once again Abu-Dhar (preface to the drama)

4. RETURN TO THE SELF
- Return
- Chapter 1: Return to the Self
- The lines sharply drawn
- Miracle of Consciousness and Faith
- Which self do we return to?
- Chapter 2: Return to which self?
- Destiny of thoughts
- Modernist reformers
- Revolutionary Political Leftists
- History and Society
- What point in History are we?
- Philosophy and science of History
- Marxism and the direction of History
- Intellectuals’ Commitment
- Historical Determinism
- Intellectual’s Prophetic Mission
- Assimilation
- The Cessation of History
- Historical Conscience
- Recollection of the Historical Self in the Orient
- Pseudo-Modernization
- Colonialism and Assimilation
- Cosmetic versus True Reform
- Committed Intellectual or the educated
- Colonization of Africa
- The Failure of Marxists Analysis of Colonialism
- Marxism and Analysis of Sub-Structure
- Nationalism and Marxism
- Understandings of Religion
- Sociology and Social Commitment
- Techniques of Becoming Intellectual
- Three Bases
- The Relationship between Science and Practice
- Critical years- What is to be done?
- The Critical Insight of Intellectuals
- Scientism
- Geography (context) of Words
- The Responsibility of the Intellectuals in Today’s Society
- The Summary of the Discussion
- We have Various Cultural Historical Identities
- Intellectual as Conscious thinker, Ideologue
- The Appropriateness of Political/Social Theories in the Process of Total Liberation
- Materialism
- Marx, Socialism and Materialism
- My worldview, based on a spiritual interpretation of the world.
- Fanon’s Will

5. IQBAL AND US
Book one:
- Iqbal, the Reformist of the Century
- As a Muslim in this Age:
- His/her Existential pains and Issues
- The 20th Century and my Pains
- Islam Traumatized, and Ali Devastated
- Revitalization
Book Two:
- Iqbal and us
- The 20th Century
- God the Infinite
- We
- Iqbal
- Authentic Islamic View
- Iqbal’s Worldview
- Visions in Search of the Spiritual Meaning
- Islam as the Cultural Force, Threatening Systems of Power and Reaction
- Religion against Religion
- Our Society’s Intellectual Wave
- Our Society’s Exposure to the West
- Socialism
- The World we live in
- Attachments
- Copies of Some Original Scripts
- References
- Notes and Explanations
- List of Qoran’s Verses
- List of Persons, Tribes and Sects
- List of Locations and Institutions
- List of Articles and Books
-List of Subjects, Concepts and Expressions

6. HAJJ (pilgrimage)
- Some Comments to the Reader
- Inverted Cloak
- 23 years in 23 days
- Rendezvous with Abraham
- Hajj Customs
- Greater Hajj
- Greater than Hajj: Martyrdom

7. SHIISM
- Book 1: Shia a Complete Party
- Book 2: The Role of Historical Characters and Memory in Shia History
- Book 3: the Responsibility and Commitments of being a Shia

8. SUPPLICATION (Prayer)
- Book 1: Prayer by Alexis Karl
- Book 2: Sajjad School
- Book 3: Prayer: Text
- Book 4: The Most Exquisite Spirit of the Worshipper

9. ALAVID SHIAISM AND SAFAVID SHIAISM
- Red Shiaism and Black Shiaism
- Alavid Shiaism and Safavid Shiaism

10. SOCIAL CALSS ANALYSIS IN ISLAM
- Book 1 - 3

11. HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION (Vol. 1)
- What is Civilization?
-General Discussion on Civilization and Culture
- The Definitions of History
- Various Schools in the field of History, and their methods of Research
- Why Myths are the Soul of all World Civilizations?
- The history of Chinese Civilization
- Chinese Insights

12. HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION (Vol. II)
- Spectacular Event in History
- Characteristics of Contemporary Century
- General Discussions on World view and Culture
- Worldview and Context
- Political Trends in Contemporary Times
- Issues of Self-Discovery
- Particularities of Contemporary Civilization

13. DESCENT IN DESERT
- The Fall
- Desert
- Attachments:
- An Explanation of ‘Creation Anthem’
- Idolatry (Totemism)
- Dear Friends

14. HISTORY AND STUDY OF WORLD RELIGIONS (Vol. 1)
- Lesson 1 - 7

15. HISTORY AND STUDY OF WORLD RELIGIONS (Vol. 11)
- Lesson 8 - 14

16. ISLAMOLOGY 1 (Hosseineyeh- Ershad Classes)
- Lesson 1 - 9

17. ISLAMOLOGY II
- Lesson 10 - 17

18. ISLAMOLOGY 3
- Lesson 19 - 27

19. HOSSEIN, ADAM’S HEIR
- Hossein, Adam’s heir
- The Avenger
- Martyrdom
- After Martyrdom
- A Discussion on the “Martyr”
- Historical Insight of Shiism
- Messianic Awaiting, the Doctrine of Protest
- Attachments:
- The philosophy of History in Islam
- Martyred Teacher’s (Dr. Shariati) Preface to the Book: Hojr- ibn Adi

20. WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
- A Message of Hope to the Enlightened Thinker (an Interpretation of Sureh Rum)
- The Social Mission of the Committed Intellectual
- Geometry of Cultural Sociology
- Third Way
- Self- awareness and Religious Alienation
- Where Shall We Begin?
- Extraction and Refinement of Cultural Resources
- What is to be done?
- Who is the Committed Intellectual?
- Attachments:
- Intellectual’s Connection to Society
- Questions and Answer

21. WOMAN
- Fatima is Fatima
- Expectations from a Muslim Woman
- The Seminar on “Woman”
- Attachment:
- Veil

22. RELIGION AGAINST RELIGION
- Religion against Religion
- Father, Mother, We are Responsible
- Yah, Brother, That’s the Way it was
- Attachments:
- Toinby, Civilization, and Religion
- Goodbye, the Place of Martyrdom
- If there were no Pope and Marx never came along
- Round-table Discussion: Question and Answer Period

23. WORLDVIEW AND IDEOLOGY
- Foreword by the Publisher
- Worldview
- A Comparative Analysis of different Worldviews
- A Class Analysis of Cain and Abel
- The Monotheistic Worldview and the Polytheistic Worldview
- Bourgeois Class and the Materialistic Worldview
- Monotheism and Polytheism
- The Significance of Monotheism
- Ideology (1)
- Distinguishing Ideology from Science and philosophy
- Distinguishing Ideology from Religion, Two Distinct Readings of Religion
- The role of Ideology in Modern centuries
- Ideology, the Committed Intellectual’s Distinction
- Ideology (II) Questions and Answers
- Ideology (III)
- Culture and Ideology
- Introduction
1- Culture
2- Civilization
- Universal Culture and Civilization
- Ethnic Culture and Civilization
- Cultural Capital
- Philosophical Approach
- Scientific Approach
- Technical Approach
- Socio-Political Approach
- The Artistic Conscience
- Religious-Gnostic Conscience
3- Ideology
- Significance of this Humane Self-Consciousness
- Posing the Issue the Other Way Around
- What’s Ideology?
- Islamic Society
- Civilization in Medina
- Self-Awareness
- What’s “Wisdom?”
- Conclusion
- Ideology (IV)
- Ideology (V)
- Messianic Awaiting, Historical Determinism and Human Will
- Dialectics and its relation to the Materialistic and the Monotheistic Worldview
- Dialectical Understanding of “Man” in Islamic Doctrine.
- The Place of Ideology in two Opposing Worldviews
- Material Symbols to illustrate Ideological and Spiritual Concepts
- Challenging Reactionary Idols
- Diverse Schemes against Revolutionary Islam
- Attachments
- Questions and Answers
- Taboo Mediation verses Ideological/Rational Mediation
- Migration and Civilization
- The role of Migration (and Movement) in the Birth Civilizations
- The Impact of Crusader Migrations, and “Travel” in Changing Western Medieval Society
- Islam’s Objective Sub-Structure and Subjective Super-Structures
- The Impact of Migration in the Development of Worldviews
- The Concept and Types of Migration in Qoran
- Index

24. MAN (HUMAN)
- Man and Islam
- Liberty
- Man, Islam and Occidental Schools of Thought
- Man as the Free Agent _ Liberation of Man
- Man and History
- Existentialism
- Attachments:
- Solitude
- The Philosophy of “Man’s” Creation

25. MAN AS SELF-“LESS” ALIENATED BEING
- Humanism in the West and the East
- Rebellion of “Man”
- Four Prisons of “Man” [Nature, History, Society and “Self”] (Abadan University conference)
- Four Prisons of “Man” [Nature, History, Society and “Self”] (Lecture in the College of Social Services)
- Man As Self-“Less” Alienated Being
- Perfect “Man”
- Modern Reactionaries
- Requirements of the Modern “Man”
- Some Words about this Book
- Wishes
- Attachment:
- The Tragic End of Young’s Life
26. ALI
- Translation and interpretation of 32nd sermon of Nahhjulb-balaqeh
- Ali, as Reflection of myths
- Our century in Pursuit of Ali
- Ali by Himself and Alone
- What need is there for Ali?
- Ali, Committed to a United Front
- Oppressors, Heretics and Treacherous Ones
- Ali Followers and their sufferings
- Impact of Ali’s Life Beyond his Mortal Death
- The Islamic Community and the place of Leadership
- Attachment:
- Ali and History

27. RECOGNITION OF IRANIAN-ISLAMIC IDENTITY
- Islamic history of Iran up to Safavid Period
- Return to “Self”
- Islamic Renaissance in the Century at a Glance
- Regrets
- Attachments:
- Shiism : Meeting of Semitic and Aryan Spirits
- Neighbouring Counties

28. METHODS IN STUDY AND UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAM
- Book 1:
- Arabs Prior to Islam
- Book 2:
- Method in Study and understanding of Islam
- The Prophet’s Personal Characteristics
- From Hijra to his Death
- Examining Some Historic Events in Early Islam
- Salmaan the “Pure”
- A Short Study of Imam Reza’s Title, ‘Heir to the Throne’
- Book 3:
- School of Islamic Education
- Attachments:
- The Necessity of Study of Islamic History and Civilization
- ‘God’ in Different Religions
- Concept of Worldview in Open and Closed Societies
- Qoran and Computer
- Principles of Following Religious Leaders
- Service and True Reform
- Cultural Geography of Saudi Arabia
- A Look at Qoran

29. RENDEZVOUS WITH ABRAHAM
- Rendezvous with Abraham
- The lectures of Hajj trip in 1970
- The lecture of Hajj trip in 1971
- Attachments:
- History and its Place in Islam
- The Curve of ‘Man’s” Progressive Evolution
- Ali’s book: for Tomorrow, for Ever book
- Consistent Standards in Education
- Islamic Knowledge
- The Necessary Role of Typology in Writing Biographies
- Death, a Message to the Living

30. ISLAMOLOGY
- No Detailed Outline

31. CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN CENTURIES
- History of the Evolution of Philosophy
- Methodology of Science
- The Economic Roots of Renaissance
- A Look at Ancient, Medieval and Modern Centuries
- A Brief Review of Medieval and Modern Characteristics
- A Glance at Tomorrow’s History
- Neo-‘Scholastics’
- Machine in Captivity of Technology
- Civilization and Pseudo-Modernization
- Place of Class Consciousness
- The Avant-Garde’s Belief in “Return to Self” (in the 3rd World)
- Attachments
- Dynamic and Static Worldview
- Hijra Basis for Dynamic Worldview
- ‘Scientific’ Sociology
- Darwinism, Homogenize of Civilizations
- The 3rd World Speaks for Itself
- Realistic and Pseudo-Intellectuals Position Vis-à-vis Religion
- True Moral Role Models are to be found in Islam
- Preface to the Conference on Hasan Al’amin

32. ART
- Art Awaiting the Saviour
- Religion as a Door, and Art the Window to the Soul
- Art as Critique of Status Quo
- On Literature and Criticism
- Play: Oppression and Justice
- A Selection of Poems
- Attachments
- What is Poetry?
- A Lesson and an Anecdote

33. MONOLOGUES IN SOLITUDE (Vol. I-II)

34. PERSONAL LETTERS

35. AN ASSORTMENT OF WRITINGS (Vol. I-II)
Volume I:
- History, Society
- “Man”
- Understanding “Islam”
- The Medieval and Modern Centuries
- Religion, Gnosis and Idealism
- Art
- Monologues in Solitude
- Ershad Institute
- Letters
Volume II:
- Children and Teenagers
- “One,” Followed by an Eternity of Zeros
- Articles
- A Selection of Notes
- Translations
- Photos of Handwritten Notes