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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787809103321

Autore

Miri Seyed Javad

Titolo

Islamism and post-Islamism : reflections upon Allama Jafari's political thought / / Seyed Javad Miri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : University Press of America, Inc., , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-7618-6388-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (109 p.)

Soggetti

Political science - Iran

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Redrawing the Map of Political Thought in an Islamist Era; 2 Governmentality in the Balance of Gnosticism; Introduction; On Management and Leadership; On Leadership and Constructive Gnosis; Fundamental Obligation of Government; Leadership and Society; Governing and Alienation; Management's Fundamental Obligation; The Intelligible Life and Equal Rights; 3 Religion, Politics, and Other Sagas; Introduction; Politics: A Conceptual Makeover; Religion: Emancipative or Oppressive Factor?; Political Gnosticism or Mystical Politics; Power and Its Functions

Manifestations of AuthorityReligion and Its Janus-Face; 4 Social Life Redesigned; Introduction; Types of Politics; Political Islam; Eurocentrism and Politics in a Critical Balance; Absence of Politics in the Empire of Islam; Designing of Social Life; Intelligible Freedom; 5 Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority; Introduction; Politics and the Sunnite Interpretation; Sovereignty in Islam; Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority; Epilogue; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Islamism and Post-Islamism </span><span>analyzes political thought in Iran since 1979. Seyed Javad Miri engages with one of the seminal thinkers in contemporary Iranian politics, Allama Jafari, on key relevant concepts.</span></span>