Revolution and its discontents : political thought and reform in Iran / Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, University of Oxford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Eskandar, 1982- author.

Series:

Global Middle East (Cambridge, England)

The global Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Iran.

Political culture.

Social change--Political aspects--Iran.

Social change.

Politics and government.

Social change--Political aspects.

Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.

Iran.

Iran--Politics and government--1997-.

Physical Description:

xiii, 441 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite, in tandem with the end of the Cold War, harboured immense intellectual and political repercussions for the Iranian state and society. It was these events which created the conditions for the emergence of Iran's post-revolutionary reform movement, as its intellectuals and political leaders sought to re-evaluate the foundations of the Islamic state's political legitimacy and religious authority. In this monograph, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, examines the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran and analyses the complex network of publications, study circles, and think-tanks that encompassed a range of prominent politicians and intellectuals in the 1990s. In his meticulous account of the relationships between the post-revolutionary political class and intelligentsia, he explores a panoply of political and ideological issues still vital to understanding Iran's revolutionary state, such as the ruling political theology of the 'Guardianship of the Jurist', the political elite's engagement with questions of Islamic statehood, democracy and constitutionalism, and their critiques of revolutionary agency and social transformation.

Contents:

Religious intellectuals, reform and the struggle for hegemony

Constructing Behesht-e Jahan : Islam, the clergy and the state

Political genealogies of reform : the rowshanfekran-e dini and the Islamic left

Revolution and its discontents : ideology and the death of Utopia

Free faith, democratic governance and the "Official Reading" of religion

Khatami, the 2nd Khordad Font and the pedagogics of pluralism

Sa'id Hajjariyan and reformist strategy : sovereign disenchantment and the politics of participation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108426343

1108426344

OCLC:

1049404972