Islam and dissent in postrevolutionary Iran
Subtitle: Abdolkarim Soroush, religious politics and democratic reform
By: Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi.
Series: International library of Iranian studies -- 16; International library of Iranian studies -- 16.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781845118808; 9781845118792
Subjects: Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm; Islam and politics -- Iran; Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997; Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997-; Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- Influence
Other titles: Islam & dissent in postrevolutionary Iran
Description: "Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience.The main object of this companion volume is to provide an overview of the most important extant literary sources in Old and Middle Iranian languages - the languages of the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian periods culminating in the rich resource of Pahlavi Persian which fed so directly into the language of the later great Persian poets. It will be an indispensable source for the literary traditions of pre-Islamic Iran and an invaluable guide to the subject."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : ideological certainties, past and present; title: The Islamic roots of modernity and the modern roots of Islamism; title: Legitimizing the postrevolutionary regime : the genesis of the new constitution; title: Abdolkarim Soroush : the intellectual voice of the Islamic Republic; title: From the reign of terror to let a thousand flowers bloom; title: From liberation theology to state ideology : Shari'ati and the emergence of new religious intellectuals; title: The silence of the Shari'ah : Abdolkarim Soroush and the theological foundations of political reform; title: Islam, democracy, and religious pluralism; title: Conclusion : social change and the symbolic universe of religion.