The reign of terror in Persia/ Jamal al-Din Afghani -- A traveller's narrative/ Mirza Malkam Khan -- Shaykh Fazl Allah Nuri's Refutation of the idea of constitutionalism/ Shaykh Fazl Allah Nuri -- The determental consequens of Islam / Ahmad Kasravi -- Sediqeh Dowlatabadi: an Iranian feminist/ introduced and transated by Mansoureh Ettehadieh / A Persian sufi in the age of printing: Mirza Hasan Safi 'Ali Shah/ introduced and translated by Nile Green -- The detrimental consequences of sufism/ Ahmad Kasravi -- Concerning the wayfaring and spritual Journey the people of intellect/ Allameh Sayyed Mohammed Taba Tabataba'i -- A new perspective on mysticism and sufism: 'Abdollah Entezam/ introduced and translated by Matthijs van den Bos -- The outline of a Disease/ Jalal Al-e Ahmad -- Civilisation and modernization/ 'Ali Shari'ati -- The necessity for Islamic government/ Ayatollah Khomeini -- Chalenges and complicities: Abdolkarim Sorush and Gender/ Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Women's political rights after the Islamic Revolution/ Mehrangiz Kar; translated by Haleh Anvari