The Iranian revolution of 1979 overhauled not only the foundations of Iranian society, religion and politics, but also our understanding of the role of religion in modern government. This title shows that the revolution unintentionally opened up the public sphere to competing interpretations of Islam.
The Iranian revolution of 1979 overhauled not only the foundations of Iranian society, religion and politics, but also our understanding of the role of religion in modern government. This title shows that the revolution unintentionally opened up the public sphere to competing interpretations of Islam.
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is Assistant Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in transnational and global histories in the Middle Eastern postcolonial context, and studies social movements and intellectual articulations of Islamic conceptions of modernity. He has published in varieties of academic journals such as 'International Sociology', 'International Review of Social History', 'Migration Review', 'Critique', and others.
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Table of Contents: 1. INTRODUCTION: IDEOLOGICAL CERTAINTIES, PAST AND PRESENT Totality, Utopia, and Foundationalism From Fairytales to Nightmares The Topic of this Book 2. THE ISLAMIC ROOTS OF MODERNITY AND THE MODERN ROOTS OF ISLAMISM British Colonialism in India and the Islamic Modernism of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838- 1897) Al-Ikhw?n al-Muslimun: The Birth of Political Islam Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979): The Islamic State in Pakistan Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966): The Establishment of the State of Israel The Arab-Israeli War of 1967 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 3. LEGITIMIZING THE POSTREVOLUTIONARY REGIME AND THE GENESIS OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION The Genesis of the Constitution and Its Ratification The Politics of the Assembly of Experts & the Final Draft of the Constitution Vel?yat-e Faqih and the Right of Self-Determination Sources of Legitimacy: The Faqih Meets Rousseau and Mao National Interests and the Interests of the Ummah Legislating and Ijtihad, the Constitution versus the Shari`ah The Limits and boundaries of freedom and democracy The Constitutional Referendum From Sacralizing the State to Secularizing the Fiqh 4. ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH, THE INTELLECTUAL VOICE OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC Soroush, Marxists, and the "Eclectics" Anthropomorphism, Scientism and Historicism Elitist Totalitarianism Soroush and the Cultural Revolution Soroush and the Cultural Revolution Council (CRC)I Soroush, the Purged President, and the Obliterated Left 5. FROM THE REIGN OF TERROR TO LET A THOUSAND FLOWERS BLOOM Factions Within Things Fall Apart Maslahat over Feq?hat Amending the Constitution: The Institutionalization of the Absolute Rule of the Faqih 6. FROM LIBERATION THEOLOGY TO STATE IDEOLOGY ALI SHARI`ATI AND THE EMERGENCE OF NEW RELIGIOUS INTELLECTUALS Islam as Ideology Shari`ati the Iranian Gramsci Ummah, Imamate, and the Ideological Society The West and Gharbzadegi 7. THE SILENCE OF THE SHARI`AH: SOROUSH AND THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL REFORM Soroush and the Critique of Islam as State Ideology The Return from Ideology to Religion The Theory of Shari`at-e S?met, The Silent Shari`ah History, Culture, and Religious Knowledge Secularism, Democracy, and the Religious State Conceptions of Science and Technology On Westoxication (Gharbzadegi) The Return to "Authentic Self" Responses: From Prodigy to Pariah 8. ISLAM, DEMOCRACY AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM Straight Paths and Religious Pluralism Reason and Religion The Eternity of the Qur'an The Critics: Relativism, Secularism, and Democracy Soroush Versus Soroush Whither Soroush? 9. CONCLUSION: SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE SYMBOLIC UNIVERSE OF RELIGION Bibliography Index
Table of Contents: 1. INTRODUCTION: IDEOLOGICAL CERTAINTIES, PAST AND PRESENT Totality, Utopia, and Foundationalism From Fairytales to Nightmares The Topic of this Book 2. THE ISLAMIC ROOTS OF MODERNITY AND THE MODERN ROOTS OF ISLAMISM British Colonialism in India and the Islamic Modernism of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838- 1897) Al-Ikhw?n al-Muslimun: The Birth of Political Islam Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979): The Islamic State in Pakistan Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966): The Establishment of the State of Israel The Arab-Israeli War of 1967 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 3. LEGITIMIZING THE POSTREVOLUTIONARY REGIME AND THE GENESIS OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION The Genesis of the Constitution and Its Ratification The Politics of the Assembly of Experts & the Final Draft of the Constitution Vel?yat-e Faqih and the Right of Self-Determination Sources of Legitimacy: The Faqih Meets Rousseau and Mao National Interests and the Interests of the Ummah Legislating and Ijtihad, the Constitution versus the Shari`ah The Limits and boundaries of freedom and democracy The Constitutional Referendum From Sacralizing the State to Secularizing the Fiqh 4. ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH, THE INTELLECTUAL VOICE OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC Soroush, Marxists, and the "Eclectics" Anthropomorphism, Scientism and Historicism Elitist Totalitarianism Soroush and the Cultural Revolution Soroush and the Cultural Revolution Council (CRC)I Soroush, the Purged President, and the Obliterated Left 5. FROM THE REIGN OF TERROR TO LET A THOUSAND FLOWERS BLOOM Factions Within Things Fall Apart Maslahat over Feq?hat Amending the Constitution: The Institutionalization of the Absolute Rule of the Faqih 6. FROM LIBERATION THEOLOGY TO STATE IDEOLOGY ALI SHARI`ATI AND THE EMERGENCE OF NEW RELIGIOUS INTELLECTUALS Islam as Ideology Shari`ati the Iranian Gramsci Ummah, Imamate, and the Ideological Society The West and Gharbzadegi 7. THE SILENCE OF THE SHARI`AH: SOROUSH AND THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL REFORM Soroush and the Critique of Islam as State Ideology The Return from Ideology to Religion The Theory of Shari`at-e S?met, The Silent Shari`ah History, Culture, and Religious Knowledge Secularism, Democracy, and the Religious State Conceptions of Science and Technology On Westoxication (Gharbzadegi) The Return to "Authentic Self" Responses: From Prodigy to Pariah 8. ISLAM, DEMOCRACY AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM Straight Paths and Religious Pluralism Reason and Religion The Eternity of the Qur'an The Critics: Relativism, Secularism, and Democracy Soroush Versus Soroush Whither Soroush? 9. CONCLUSION: SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE SYMBOLIC UNIVERSE OF RELIGION Bibliography Index
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