Iran's Intellectual Revolution
Part of Cambridge Middle East Studies
- Author: Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University, Qatar
- Date Published: September 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521725187
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Since its revolution in 1979, Iran has been viewed as the bastion of radical Islam and a sponsor of terrorism. The focus on its volatile internal politics and its foreign relations has, according to Kamrava, distracted attention from more subtle transformations which have been taking place there in the intervening years. With the death of Ayatollah Khomeini a more relaxed political environment opened up in Iran, which encouraged intellectual and political debate between learned elites and religious reformers. What emerged from these interactions were three competing ideologies which Kamrava categorises as conservative, reformist and secular. As the book aptly demonstrates, these developments, which amount to an intellectual revolution, will have profound and far-reaching consequences for the future of the Islamic republic, its people and very probably for countries beyond its borders. This thought-provoking account of the Iranian intellectual and cultural scene will confound stereotypical views of Iran and its mullahs.
Read more- Challenging stereotypical views, the book explores competing political and religious ideologies in contemporary Iran
- Interdisciplinary in approach, the book will appeal to historians, sociologists, philosophers and students of religion
- Presents unique sources that are not easily accessible to English-language readers
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- Date Published: September 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521725187
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- contains: 4 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Emerging Iranian discourses
3. Theorizing about the world
4. The conservative religious discourse
5. The reformist religious discourse
6. The secular modernist discourse
7. Iran's silent revolution.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Politics and Islam
- Seminar: Iran
- The Iranian Revolution
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