Iran--between tradition and modernity
By: edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo.
Contributors: Jahanbegloo, Ramin.
Series: Global encounters
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Social change -- Iran.; Islamic modernism -- Iran.; Islam and politics -- Iran.; Secularism -- Iran.; Culture conflict -- Iran.; Globalization.; Iran -- Intellectual life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Iranian society, modernity, and globalization / Jamsheed Behnam; title: Keywords in Islamic critiques of technoscience : Iranian post-revolutionary interpretations / Mazyar Lotfalian; title: The relevance of John Locke to social change in the Muslim world : a comparison with Iran / Nader Hashemi; title: Negotiating modernity : ulama and the discourse of modernity in nineteenth-century Iran / Monica M. Ringer; title: Mehdi Haeri Yazdi and the discourse of modernity / Farzin Vahdat; title: Utopia of asassins : Navvab Safavi and the Fadaʾian-e Eslam in prerevolutionary Iran / Sohrab Behdad; title: Blindness and insight : the predicament of a Muslim intellectual / Hamid Dabashi; title: The varieties of religious reform : public intelligentsia in Iran / Ahmad Sadri; title: The homeless texts of Persianate modernity / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; title: Women's employment in Iran : modernization and Islamization / Roksana Bahramitash; title: "Islamist" women activists : allies or enemies? / Susan Siavoshi; title: Power and purity : Iranian political culture, communication, and identity / Majid Tehranian.