Islam and dissent in postrevolutionary Iran : Abdolkarim Soroush, religious politics and democratic reform / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi.

Author/creator Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionviii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesInternational library of Iranian studies ; 16
International library of Iranian studies ; 16. ^A591197
Contents Introduction : ideological certainties, past and present -- The Islamic roots of modernity and the modern roots of Islamism -- Legitimizing the postrevolutionary regime : the genesis of the new constitution -- Abdolkarim Soroush : the intellectual voice of the Islamic Republic -- From the reign of terror to let a thousand flowers bloom -- From liberation theology to state ideology : Shari`ati and the emergence of new religious intellectuals -- The silence of the Shari`ah : Abdolkarim Soroush and the theological foundations of political reform -- Islam, democracy, and religious pluralism -- Conclusion : social change and the symbolic universe of religion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [290]-302) and index.
ISBN1845118804 (pbk.)
ISBN9781845118808 (pbk.)
ISBN1845118790 (hbk.)
ISBN9781845118792 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks DS 318.825 .G53 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold