Political conservatism and religious reformation in Iran (1905-1979) : reconsidering the monarchic legacy / / Amir Yahya Ayatollahi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910553069403321
• Autore: Ayatollahi Amir Yahya
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783658366704; 9783658366698
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (394 pages)
• Collana: (Re-)konstruktionen - Internationale und Globale Studien
• Disciplina: 955.05
• Soggetti: Iran Politics and government 1925-1979; Iran Politics and government 1905-1911
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Summary -- A Note On Transliteration, Calendars, And References -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 What is Political Conservatism? -- 1.1 Political Conservatism: Concept and History -- 1.1.1 Understanding Politics -- 1.1.2 Understanding Conservatism -- 1.2 Conservatism and Religion: A Brief Study of Edmund Burke -- 1.2.1 The Religion and the Politics: Separation and Cooperation -- 1.2.2 The Church and the State in Modern World -- 1.2.3 The Religious Movements and the State -- 1.2.4 The Necessity of Political Consecration -- 1.3 Liberal Conservatism as a Reconciliation of Liberty and Authority -- 2 What is Religious Reformation? -- 2.1 Religious Reformation: Concept and History -- 2.2 Political Theology of Shiism -- 2.2.1 An Introduction to the Political Shiism -- 2.2.2 The Myth of [positive] Innovation in Shiite Ușūlī School: A Case of the "Bad Rationalization" -- 2.2.3 The Myth of Mystical Shiism: The Negligence of Political Shiism from Corbin to Shaygan -- 2.2.4 Young Khomeini and his Kashf al-Asrār, 1944 -- 2.2.5 Shiite Conservatism and Political Shiism: Khomeini Against Clergies -- 3 Constitutionalism, Religion &amp -- Modernization -- 3.1 Politics and Religion in the Late Qajar Dynasty (1905-1925) -- 3.2 Instrumentalist Approach of Pahlavi Toward Religion -- 3.2.1 Reza Shah and Religion: the Rise of Pahlavi Monarchy -- 3.2.2 Mohammad Reza Shah and Religion: A Paradoxical ; Monarchy or a Monarchy That Tried to be Secular in a Paradoxical Society -- 3.2.3 The Empress and the Political Meeting with "A Respected Ayatollah" -- 3.2.4 The Inevitability of the Instrumentalist Approach and the Peaceful Religiosity in Pahlavis -- 3.3 From the "Possible" Democratization to the Collapse of Pahlavi -- 3.3.1 The Realpolitik, the Society, and the Constitution -- 3.3.2 The Expeditious Collapse of the Pahlavi System.; 3.3.3 The Image of Shah: The Attribution of Paradoxical Characteristics -- 3.4 Beautiful Monarchy and Sublime Theocracy: The Political Aesthetics of Western Attitude Toward Pahlavi and Khomeini -- 3.4.1 Pahlavi and "Oriental Despotism" -- 3.4.2 Pahlavi and the Sublimity -- 4 From the Constitutional Revolution to the Shiite Ideology -- 4.1 Rethinking of Iranian Conservatism -- 4.1.1 The Theme is About the Monarchical Conservatism in Pre-revolutionary Iran -- 4.1.2 Ancient Iranian Conservatism was Relatively Tolerant as a Bureaucratic Political Authority Toward Religious Diversities -- 4.1.3 The Failure of Pahlavi Conservatism: On the Contradictory and Self-destructive Heritage -- 4.2 Islamic Revolution as a Result of Antagonism Between Politics and Religion -- 4.2.1 The Inevitability of the Revolution 1979: Determinism or Voluntarism -- 4.2.2 Revolutionary Machiavellism of the anti-Shah Opposition: The Sacred Instrumentalism -- 4.3 The Islamic Republic and the New Formation of Political Conservatism -- 4.3.1 The Stubborn Shape of an Ostensibly Shapeless Regime -- 4.3.2 The Green Movement of 2009 and the Patriotic Uprisings since 2018: The Replacement of Discourse and Leadership -- 4.3.3 The Reformers Conserve an Incorrigible System: A Story of a Successful Propaganda -- 4.3.4 Religious Intellectualism: The Failed Reform and the Successful Conservation -- 4.3.5 Iranian Culture, the Islamic Republic, and the West: A Persistent Misknowledge -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography.