Description

The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological heights and reaches down to the very ground of Islamic practice. The contributors to this collection, experts on Iranian cultural and political history, analyze the 'fragmented self' of today's Iranian, refracted through that country's institutions, market forces, and modern thought. Each essay both deepens our understanding of contemporary Iran and adds to the broader discussion of the relationship between Islam and the West.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Thinking Modernity
Chapter 2 Iranian Society, Modernity, and Globalization
Chapter 3 Keywords in Islamic Critiques of Technoscience: Iranian Postrevolutionary Interpretations
Chapter 4 The Relevance of John Locke to Social Change in the Muslim World: A Comparison with Iran
Part 5 Theology and Modernity
Chapter 6 Negotiating Modernity: Ulama and the Discourse of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Iran
Chapter 7 Mehdi Haeri Yazdi and the Discourse of Modernity
Chapter 8 Utopia of Assassins: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam in the Prerevolutionary Iran
Part 9 Intellectual Discourses of Modernity
Chapter 10 Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim Intellectual
Chapter 11 The Varieties of Religious Reform: Public Intelligentsia in Iran
Chapter 12 The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity
Part 13 Modernization, Gender, and Political Culture
Chapter 14 Women's Employment in Iran: Modernization and Islamization
Chapter 15 "Islamist" Women Activists: Allies or Enemies?
Chapter 16 Power and Purity: Iranian Political Culture, Communication, and Identity

Product details

Published 27 Mar 2004
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9780739156599
Imprint Lexington Books
Series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Contributor

Sohrab Behdad

Contributor

Jamsheed Behnam

Contributor

Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iran…

Contributor

Nader Hashemi

Contributor

Ahmad Sadri

Contributor

Sussan Siavoshi

Contributor

Majid Tehranian

Contributor

Farzin Vahdat

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