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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      October 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511489242
      9780521650007
      9780521659970
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489242
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.515kg, 244 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.415kg, 244 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Sociology: General Interest, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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    Subjects:
    Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Sociology: General Interest, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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    In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The author argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity, culture and historical experience. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular. A significant contribution to the literature on modernity, social change and Islamic Studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of social theory and change, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many related areas.

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    "...an excellent addition to the on-going debates in sociology and the Middle East." Contemporary Sociology

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