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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255211403321

Autore

Badamchi Meysam

Titolo

Post-Islamist Political Theory [[electronic resource] ] : Iranian Intellectuals and Political Liberalism in Dialogue / / by Meysam Badamchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-59492-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 223 p.)

Collana

Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, , 2352-8370 ; ; 5

Disciplina

955.054

Soggetti

Political philosophy

Political theory

Intellectual life—History

Islam

Law—Philosophy

Law

Middle East—Politics and government

Political Philosophy

Political Theory

Intellectual Studies

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History

Middle Eastern Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Political Liberalism for Post-Islamist, Muslim-Majority Societies -- Chapter 3. Why and How Political Liberals Need to Persuade Muslims: Ferrara and March’s Interpretations of Conjecture -- Chapter 4. An Unorthodox, Islamic, Full Justification for Liberal Citizenship: the Case of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari -- Chapter 5. Between Contractarianism and Islamic State: A Post-Islamist Reading of M.H.Tabatabai’s Theory of Justice -- Chapter 6. Reasonableness, Rationality and Government: Mehdi Haeri Yazdi’s Hekmat va Hokumat



-- Chapter 7. Between Truth and Democracy: Mostafa Malekian’s Spiritual Intellectualism -- Chapter 8. Guardianship, Basic Liberties, and Reform: A Post-Islamist Critique of Iran’s Post- Revolutionary Constitution -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with the concept of post-Islamism from a mainly philosophical perspective, using political liberalism as elaborated by John Rawls as the key interpretive tool. What distinguishes this book from most scholarship in Iranian studies is that it primarily deals with the projects of Iranian intellectuals from a normative perspective as the concept is understood by analytical philosophers. The volume includes analyses of the strengths and weakness of the arguments underlying each thinker’s ideas, rather than looking for their historical and sociological origins, genealogy, etc. Each chapter develops a particular conjectural argument for the possibility of an overlapping consensus between Islam and political liberalism, though the arguments presented draw upon different Islamic, particularly Shia, resources. Thus, while Shabestari and Soroush primarily reason from a modernist theological or kalami perspective, M.H.Tabatabai and Mehdi Haeri Yazdi’s arguments are mainly based on traditional Islamic philosophy and Quranic exegesis. While Kadivar, An-Naim and Fanaei are post-Islamist in the exact sense of the term, Malekian goes beyond typical post-Islamism by proposing a theory for spirituality that constrains religion within the boundaries of enlightenment thought. Throughout the book, specific attention is given to Ferrara and March’s readings of political liberalism. Although the book’s chapters constitute a whole, they can also be read independently if the reader is only curious about particular intellectuals whose political theories are discussed.