A guerrilla odyssey
Subtitle: modernization, secularism, democracy, and the Fadai period of national liberation in Iran, 1971-1979
By: Peyman Vahabzadeh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815632436
Subjects: Sāzmān-i Chirīkʹhā-yi Fadāʼī-i Khalq-i Īrān -- History; Chirīkʹhā-yi Fadāyī-i Khalq-i Īrān -- History; National liberation movements -- Iran -- History -- 20th century; Guerrillas -- Iran -- History -- 20th century; New Left -- Iran -- History -- 20th century; Islamic modernism -- Iran -- History -- 20th century; Islam and secularism -- Iran -- History -- 20th century; Democracy -- Iran -- History -- 20th century; Iran -- Politics and government -- 1941-1979
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to a belated study; title: Iran in the 1960s : repressive development; title: Organization of the Iranian People's Fadai Guerrillas (1971-1979); title: Bizhan Jazani : en route to a democratic theory of the liberation front; title: Massoud Ahmadzadeh : theorizing armed struggle; title: Three failed interlocutions : diverging propensities; title: Mostafa Shoaʻiyan : haunting return of plurivocal origination; title: The Fadai movement; title: Technologies of resistance; title: Constitutive paradox : liberation, secularism, and the possibility of democratic action; title: Appendix A: Fadai casualties, 1970-1979; title: Appendix B: The splits of Fadaiyan.