Dr. Monshipouri and Mr. Kukla are affiliated with the Department of Political Science at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. An earlier draft of this paper was delivered at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March 18-19, 1994. Comments made by Carl Mentley, Peter Koper, Tomas Ivan Moore and Roseanne Hoefel on a previous draft are gratefully acknowledged.