Mahmoud Pargoo

Presidential Elections in Iran (eBook, ePUB)

Islamic Idealism since the Revolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The dominant narrative of Iranian society and politics heralds the reformist movement as the epitome of Iran's transition to secularity, while conservative political forces are positioned as advocates of Islamization and a bulwark against secularization. Examining all the presidential elections since the revolution, Mahmoud Pargoo and Shahram Akbarzadeh argue that in contrast, political and cultural imagination and expectations in Iran have actually secularized regardless of the reformist/conservative divide. Exploring the evolution of campaign discourses from the 1980s elections which brought Abolhassan Banisadr, Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Ali Khamenei to power, to the more recent campaigns of Mohamad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Rouhani, this book suggests that current debates in Iranian domestic politics are not between secularists and their opponents, but rather, between different kinds of secular forces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108999113
• Artikelnr.: 62747507

Autorenporträt

Mahmoud Pargoo is a Research Fellow at Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University in Melbourne-Australia and a former visiting lecturer at the University of Sydney. He received his Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University in 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Theoretical Framework
2. The Age of the 'Imam'
3. The Era of Reconstruction and Reform
4. Ahmadinejad and Secularization: Rupture or Continuity?
5. Consolidation of Secularity
Conclusion
Appendix: Presidential Elections in a Nutshell.