03849nam 2200673 a 450 991082635950332120230721032513.00-292-79449-510.7560/716780(CKB)1000000000533884(OCoLC)646761227(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245774(SSID)ssj0000184177(PQKBManifestationID)11177958(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184177(PQKBWorkID)10199476(PQKB)11328079(MiAaPQ)EBC3443288(MdBmJHUP)muse2342(Au-PeEL)EBL3443288(CaPaEBR)ebr10245774(DE-B1597)586687(OCoLC)1286805857(DE-B1597)9780292794498(MiAaPQ)EBC30788031(Au-PeEL)EBL30788031(EXLCZ)99100000000053388420070813d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIslamism and modernism the changing discourse in Iran /Farhang Rajaee1st ed.Austin, TX University of Texas Press20071 online resource (293 p.) Modern Middle East series ; no. 24Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-71678-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index.The first generation : the politics of revival, 1920s-1960s -- The second generation : the politics of revolution, 1963-1991 -- The third generation : the politics of Islamism, 1989-1997 -- The fourth generation : the politics of restoration, 1997-2005 -- Conclusion : the politics of oscillation.While many previous books have probed the causes of Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, few have focused on the power of religion in shaping a national identity over the decades leading up to it. Islamism and Modernism captures the metamorphosis of the Islamic movement in Iran, from encounters with Great Britain and the United States in the 1920s through twenty-first-century struggles between those seeking to reform Islam's role and those who take a hardline defensive stance. Capturing the views of four generations of Muslim activists, Farhang Rajahee describes how the extremism of the 1960s brought more confidence to concerned Islam-minded Iranians and radicalized the Muslim world while Islamic alternatives to modernity were presented. Subsequent ideologies gave rise to the revolution, which in turn has fed a restructuring of Islam as a faith rather than as an ideology. Presenting thought-provoking discussions of religious thinkers such as Ha'eri, Burujerdi, Bazargan, and Shari'ati, along with contemporaries such as Kadivar, Soroush, and Shabestari, the author sheds rare light on the voices fueling contemporary Islamic thinking in Iran. A comprehensive study of these interwoven aspects of politics, religion, society, and identity, Islamism and Modernism offers crucial new insight into the aftermath of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution fought one hundred years ago—and its ramifications for the newest generation to face the crossroads of modernity and Islamic discourse in modern Iran today.CMES Modern Middle East SeriesIslamIranHistoryIslam and stateIranIranPolitics and government20th centuryIranPolitics and government21st centuryIslamHistory.Islam and state320.5/570955Rajāyī Farhang1952 or 3-1598037MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826359503321Islamism and modernism4099691UNINA