Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran : An Intellectual History / by Yadullah Shahibzadeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shahibzadeh, Yadullah., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics.

Intellectual life--History.

Intellectual life.

Islam.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Political History.

Intellectual History.

Political Philosophy.

Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse.

Local Subjects:

Political History.

Intellectual History.

Islam.

Political Philosophy.

Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran’s contemporary political and intellectual history. It investigates the way Iranian Muslim intellectuals have discussed politics and democracy. As a history of Iranian Islamism and its transformation to post-Islamism, this work demonstrates that Muslim intellectuals have enriched the Iranian society epistemologically, aesthetically, ethically, and politically. This book examines the internal conflicts of the Islamist ideology as the intellectual underpinnings of the 1979 Revolution, its contribution to the formation of the post-revolutionary state, and the post-Islamist response to the democratic deficits of the post-revolutionary state. Seeking to overcome the shortcomings of historiographical approaches, this book demonstrates the intellectual and political agency of Muslim intellectuals from the 1960s to the present.

Contents:

1 The Crisis of Political Leadership

2 Islamist Totalism

3 Islamism in Power

4 Post-Islamist Perspectivism

5 Post-Islamism and Democracy

6 Post-Islamism versus Neo-Conservatism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137578259

1137578254