Iran : between tradition and modernity / edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jahanbegloo, Ramin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Iran.

Social change.

Islamic modernism--Iran.

Islamic modernism.

Islam and politics--Iran.

Islam and politics.

Secularism--Iran.

Secularism.

Culture conflict--Iran.

Culture conflict.

Globalization.

Iran--Intellectual life.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; Oxford, England : Lexington Books, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological heights and reaches down to the very ground of Islamic practice. The contributors to this collection, experts on Iranian cultural and political history, analyze the 'fragmented self' of today's Iranian, refracted through that country's institutions, market forces, and modern thought. Each essay both deepens our understanding of contemporary Iran

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Ramin Jahanbegloo; Part I: Thinking Modernity; 1 Iranian Society, Modernity, and Globalization Jamshid Behnam; 2 Keywords in Islamic Critiques of Technoscience: Iranian Postrevolutionary Interpretations Mazyar Lotfalian; 3 The Relevance of John Locke to Social Change in the Muslim World: A Comparison with Iran Nader Hashemi; Part II: Theology and Modernity; 4 Negotiating Modernity: Ulama and the Discourse of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Iran Monica M. Ringer

5 Mehdi Haeri Yazdi and the Discourse of Modernity Farzin Vahdat6 Utopia of Assassins: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam in Prerevolutionary Iran Sohrab Behdad; Part III: Intellectual Discourses of Modernity; 7 Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim Intellectual Hamid Dabashi; 8 The Varieties of Religious Reform: Public Intelligentsia in Iran Ahmad Sadri; 9 The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; Part IV: Modernization, Gender, and Political Culture; 10 Women's Employment in Iran: Modernization and Islamization Roksana Bahramitash

11 ""Islamist"" Women Activists: Allies or Enemies? Sussan Siavoshi12 Power and Purity: Iranian Political Culture, Communication, and Identity Majid Tehranian; Index; About the Editor and Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7391-0529-9

0-7391-5659-4

OCLC:

857800417