Ali Shari'ati and the shaping of political Islam in Iran / Kingshuk Chatterjee.
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TextSeries: Middle East todayPublisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 274 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780230113336Subject(s): Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī | Islam and politics -- Iran | Muslim scholars -- Iran | POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership | RELIGION / Islam / General | Iran -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 320.5/570955 LOC classification: BP80.S517 | C43 2011Other classification: POL010000 | POL025000 | REL037000 | Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and index.
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 prder: the state or the people? -- Sovereignty as responsibility : Mazhab-e Aitraz -- The individual as an agent of change : Khudsazi-ye Inqilabi -- The ripples of a revolution -- Appendix I : Shi'ism : a brief sketch of the early years -- Appendix II : Selected works/lectures of 'Ali Shari'ati.
"While Ayatollah Khomeini is considered the face of the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, Ali Shari'ati is considered a much greater influence on shaping the revolutionary consciousness than Khomeini. Acceptable to both modernists as well as Islamists, Shari'ati's radicalism inspired much of the resistance in urban Iran in the closing years of the Shah. Ali Shari'ati and the Shaping of Political Islam in Iran 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"--
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