Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran (eBook, PDF)

Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. Here Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi takes us on an enlightening journey, showing that the revolution unintentionally opened up the public sphere to competing interpretations of Islam. Far from being the exclusive preserve of high-ranking seminarians as before, in contemporary Iran lay theologians, intellectuals, lawyers and social activists are active and influential interlocutors in debates on the meaning of Islam.A key figure is philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush, a leading force behind Iran's pro-democracy movement and vocal critic of the state. Through a close reading of Soroush's writings, and by tracing the links between Muslim intellectual critique and the realpolitik of postrevolutionary power struggles, Ghamari-Tabrizi offers nothing less than a pathbreaking reassessment of the Iranian revolution. With powerful insights, 'Islam and Dissent' is essential for an understanding of the Muslim world today, as of the new relationships between religion, politics and democracy visible across the globe.Islam and politics a very important topic, especially re.
Iran. Soroush is a key figure in Iran, and in Middle East generally. This title is recommended by star academics in the field of Islam and politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786734921
• Artikelnr.: 57534126

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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