Iran's Intellectual Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iran's Intellectual Revolution write by Mehran Kamrava. This book was released on 2008-09-25. Iran's Intellectual Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its revolution in 1979, Iran has been viewed as the bastion of radical Islam and a sponsor of terrorism. The focus on its volatile internal politics and its foreign relations has, according to Kamrava, distracted attention from more subtle transformations which have been taking place there in the intervening years. With the death of Ayatollah Khomeini a more relaxed political environment opened up in Iran, which encouraged intellectual and political debate between learned elites and religious reformers. What emerged from these interactions were three competing ideologies which Kamrava categorises as conservative, reformist and secular. As the book aptly demonstrates, these developments, which amount to an intellectual revolution, will have profound and far-reaching consequences for the future of the Islamic republic, its people and very probably for countries beyond its borders. This thought-provoking account of the Iranian intellectual and cultural scene will confound stereotypical views of Iran and its mullahs.
Iran's Quiet Revolution
Iran's Quiet Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iran's Quiet Revolution write by Ali Mirsepassi. This book was released on 2019-08-29. Iran's Quiet Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new perspective on Iranian politics and culture in the 1960s-1970s documenting the 'Westoxification' discourses adopted by the Pahlavi State.
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foucault and the Iranian Revolution write by Janet Afary. This book was released on 2010-07-15. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur. During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault traveled to Iran, met with leaders like Ayatollah Khomeini, and wrote a series of articles on the revolution. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution is the first book-length analysis of these essays on Iran, the majority of which have never before appeared in English. Accompanying the analysis are annotated translations of the Iran writings in their entirety and the at times blistering responses from such contemporaneous critics as Middle East scholar Maxime Rodinson as well as comments on the revolution by feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. In this important and controversial account, Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson illuminate Foucault's support of the Islamist movement. They also show how Foucault's experiences in Iran contributed to a turning point in his thought, influencing his ideas on the Enlightenment, homosexuality, and his search for political spirituality. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution informs current discussion on the divisions that have reemerged among Western intellectuals over the response to radical Islamism after September 11. Foucault's provocative writings are thus essential for understanding the history and the future of the West's relationship with Iran and, more generally, to political Islam. In their examination of these journalistic pieces, Afary and Anderson offer a surprising glimpse into the mind of a celebrated thinker.
Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran
Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran write by Yadullah Shahibzadeh. This book was released on 2016-06-01. Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran’s contemporary political and intellectual history. It investigates the way Iranian Muslim intellectuals have discussed politics and democracy. As a history of Iranian Islamism and its transformation to post-Islamism, this work demonstrates that Muslim intellectuals have enriched the Iranian society epistemologically, aesthetically, ethically, and politically. This book examines the internal conflicts of the Islamist ideology as the intellectual underpinnings of the 1979 Revolution, its contribution to the formation of the post-revolutionary state, and the post-Islamist response to the democratic deficits of the post-revolutionary state. Seeking to overcome the shortcomings of historiographical approaches, this book demonstrates the intellectual and political agency of Muslim intellectuals from the 1960s to the present.
God and Juggernaut
God and Juggernaut - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and Juggernaut write by Farzin Vahdat. This book was released on 2002-05-01. God and Juggernaut available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vahdat (comparative religion, Tufts U.), in this revised version of his dissertation (in sociology at Brandeis U.), applies a carefully defined theory of modernity to his discussion of Iran from the mid- 19th century to the present. The theories of modernity advanced by Kant, Hegel, Marx, Weber, Adorno, Foucault, and Habermas are discussed at the outset. Subsequent chapters consider the Iranian use of modernity, the role of intellectuals in adopting modernity, and how political events have moderated both. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
