num_pages: 244
description: 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.
language: English
title: Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran
titlecomplete: Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
genres: Sociology, Iran, History
ratings_count: 74
series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
publisher: Cambridge University Press