Iran
Between Tradition and Modernity
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2004
240 pages
978-0-7391-5659-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological heights and reaches down to the very ground of Islamic practice. The contributors to this collection, experts on Iranian cultural and political history, analyze the 'fragmented self' of today's Iranian, refracted through that country's institutions, market forces, and modern thought. Each essay both deepens our understanding of contemporary Iran and adds to the broader discussion of the relationship between Islam and the West.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-5659-9 (9780739156599)
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Persons
Ramin Jahanbegloo is head of the Department for Contemporary Thought at the Cultural Research Bureau, Iran, and assistant professor at Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London.
Content
Part 1 Thinking Modernity
Chapter 2 Iranian Society, Modernity, and Globalization
Chapter 3 Keywords in Islamic Critiques of Technoscience: Iranian Postrevolutionary Interpretations
Chapter 4 The Relevance of John Locke to Social Change in the Muslim World: A Comparison with Iran
Part 5 Theology and Modernity
Chapter 6 Negotiating Modernity: Ulama and the Discourse of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Iran
Chapter 7 Mehdi Haeri Yazdi and the Discourse of Modernity
Chapter 8 Utopia of Assassins: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam in the Prerevolutionary Iran
Part 9 Intellectual Discourses of Modernity
Chapter 10 Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim Intellectual
Chapter 11 The Varieties of Religious Reform: Public Intelligentsia in Iran
Chapter 12 The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity
Part 13 Modernization, Gender, and Political Culture
Chapter 14 Women's Employment in Iran: Modernization and Islamization
Chapter 15 "Islamist" Women Activists: Allies or Enemies?
Chapter 16 Power and Purity: Iranian Political Culture, Communication, and Identity
Chapter 2 Iranian Society, Modernity, and Globalization
Chapter 3 Keywords in Islamic Critiques of Technoscience: Iranian Postrevolutionary Interpretations
Chapter 4 The Relevance of John Locke to Social Change in the Muslim World: A Comparison with Iran
Part 5 Theology and Modernity
Chapter 6 Negotiating Modernity: Ulama and the Discourse of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Iran
Chapter 7 Mehdi Haeri Yazdi and the Discourse of Modernity
Chapter 8 Utopia of Assassins: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam in the Prerevolutionary Iran
Part 9 Intellectual Discourses of Modernity
Chapter 10 Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim Intellectual
Chapter 11 The Varieties of Religious Reform: Public Intelligentsia in Iran
Chapter 12 The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity
Part 13 Modernization, Gender, and Political Culture
Chapter 14 Women's Employment in Iran: Modernization and Islamization
Chapter 15 "Islamist" Women Activists: Allies or Enemies?
Chapter 16 Power and Purity: Iranian Political Culture, Communication, and Identity
