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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255306203321

Autore

Shahibzadeh Yadullah

Titolo

Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran : An Intellectual History / / by Yadullah Shahibzadeh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-57825-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

306.42

Soggetti

World politics

Intellectual life—History

Islam

Political philosophy

Sociology

Political History

Intellectual Studies

Political Philosophy

Knowledge - Discourse

History

Iran

Islamic countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 The Crisis of Political Leadership -- 2 Islamist Totalism -- 3 Islamism in Power -- 4 Post-Islamist Perspectivism -- 5 Post-Islamism and Democracy -- 6 Post-Islamism versus Neo-Conservatism.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran’s contemporary political and intellectual history. It investigates the way Iranian Muslim intellectuals have discussed politics and democracy. As a history of Iranian Islamism and its transformation to post-Islamism, this work demonstrates that Muslim intellectuals have enriched the Iranian society epistemologically, aesthetically, ethically, and politically. This book examines the internal conflicts of the Islamist ideology as the



intellectual underpinnings of the 1979 Revolution, its contribution to the formation of the post-revolutionary state, and the post-Islamist response to the democratic deficits of the post-revolutionary state. Seeking to overcome the shortcomings of historiographical approaches, this book demonstrates the intellectual and political agency of Muslim intellectuals from the 1960s to the present.