Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization : negotiating modernity in Iran / Ali Mirsepassi.

ISBN:

9780511011849

9780511036767

9780511151699

9780521650007

9780511489242

9786610432479

Title:

Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization : negotiating modernity in Iran / Ali Mirsepassi.

Author:

Mirsepassi, Ali.

Personal Author:

Mirsepassi, Ali.

Publication Information:

Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages).

Series:

Cambridge cultural social studies

Contents:

Introduction: modernity and "culture" -- Western narratives of modernity. Orientalism and the Occidentalist discontent. Montesquieu's Persian Letters. Hegel: the colonization of world history. Karl Marx: the materialist narrative of modernity. The "popularization" of the Islamic Other -- Reconciling with the West's Other. The Mashruteh movement: reconciliation through capitulation -- The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam. The decline of democratic secularism (1941-53). Modernization and its discontent. The politicization of Shi'ism. Reform in Shi'i institutions -- Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati. Al-e Ahmad: "return" to the "roots" Ali Shari'ati: Islamic ideology as an authentic discourse.

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Subject Term:

Politics and culture -- Iran.

Islam and politics -- Iran.

Islam and secularism -- Iran.

Geographic Term:

Iran -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2000

Publication Information:

Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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In this thought-provoking book, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity and exposes the Eurocentric prejudices underlying its development. He provides a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through a detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals and argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: modernity and 'culture'

1 Western narratives of modernity

2 Reconciling with the West's other

3 The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam

4 Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati

5 German intellectuals and the culture of modernity

6 The tragedy of the Iranian left

7 Modernities of our time

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