Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
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In this thought-provoking book, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity and exposes the Eurocentric prejudices underlying its development. He provides a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through a detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals and 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 and culture. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular.
- Develops a new concept of modernity, free from traditional Eurocentric assumptions
- New perspective on Islamic Fundamentalism
- Unique study of the cultural and social transformations taken place since the Iranian Revolution
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"...an excellent addition to the on-going debates in sociology and the Middle East." Contemporary Sociology
Product details
November 2000Hardback
9780521650007
244 pages
237 × 159 × 24 mm
0.515kg
5 tables
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: modernity and 'culture'
- 1. Western narratives of modernity
- 2. Reconciling with the West's other
- 3. The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam
- 4. Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati
- 5. German intellectuals and the culture of modernity
- 6. The tragedy of the Iranian left
- 7. Modernities of our time
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
