Ali Shari'ati and the shaping of political Islam in Iran

Ali Shari'ati and the shaping of political Islam in Iran

Chatterjee, Kingshuk

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This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy. KINGSHUK CHATTERJEE Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Calcutta University, India. INDICE: The Languages of Power and Politics in Modern Iran - Language of Opposition Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran - The World as Tauheed: Envisaging an Islamic Alternative - The Purpose of Political Order: the State or the People?- Sovereignty as Responsibility: Mazhab-e Aitraz - The Individual as an Agentof Change: Khudsazi-ye Inqilabi - The Ripples of a Revolution - Appendix: Shi'ism - A Brief Sketch of the Early Years - Appendix II: Selected Works/Lectures of 'Ali Shari'ati

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-11333-6
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 288
  • Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés