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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457488403321

Autore

Vahabzadeh Peyman

Titolo

A guerrilla odyssey [[electronic resource] ] : modernization, secularism, democracy, and the Fadai period of national liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 / / Peyman Vahabzadeh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, N.Y., : Syracuse University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8156-5147-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East

Disciplina

956.704/3

Soggetti

National liberation movements - Iran - History - 20th century

Guerrillas - Iran - History - 20th century

New Left - Iran - History - 20th century

Islamic modernism - Iran - History - 20th century

Islam and secularism - Iran - History - 20th century

Democracy - Iran - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Iran Politics and government 1941-1979

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Iran in the 1960s : repressive development -- Organization of the Iranian People's Fadai Guerrillas (1971-1979) -- Bizhan Jazani : en route to a democratic theory of the liberation front -- Massoud Ahmadzadeh : theorizing armed struggle -- Three failed interlocutions : diverging propensities -- Mostafa Sho'aiyan : haunting return of plurivocal origination -- The Fadai movement -- Technologies of resistance -- Constitutive paradox : liberation, secularism, and the possibility of democratic action -- Appendix A : Fadai casualties, 1970-1979 -- Appendix B : The splits of Fadaiyan.