During the 1940s and 1950s, Islamic reformism flourished in Iran. This book examines how Iranian Islamic groups came to rethink traditional accounts of religion and nurture a politicized version of Islam. The author shows how similar social and political circumstances, but different family and educational backgrounds gave rise to socialist, democratic/scientific and fundamentalist/militant reinterpretations of Islam. What was common among these groups was a tendency towards politicizing the religion. A significant contribution to discussions of contemporary political thought in Iran, this book will be of interest to researchers and academics of Islamic political though and Iranian politics and history.
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Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi completed his PhD in Political Theory at the University of Hull, after obtaining BA and MA degrees in Politics at the University of Tehran. His research interests include political theory, cultural difference, and politics and society in the Middle East.
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Insightful, but too descriptive,
This review is from: The Flourishing of Islamic Reformism in Iran: Political Islamic Groups in Iran (1941-61) (Routledge Studies in Political Islam) (Hardcover)
A reader from United KingdomA fluent short book on the social and political thought among Iranians with a religious background, within a turbulent period, the years before and after nationalizing the oil industry in the country. It is an interesting selection of people and groups, but why is it limited to them? It could have included a much wider spectrum. It provides us with some attention-grabbing information, not found elsewhere, referencing to the original sources in Persian. However, it does not go far beyond a descriptive review. The author tries to establish a link between the political thought of the groups and individuals and their social, political, family and educational background, but does not provide us with hard evidence or quantitative data.
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The unabated factionalism within the Islamic Republic of Iran in the past decade has shown that the Islamic Revolution has two different faces: a fundamentalist face and a modernist one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Socialist Theists, Iran Freedom Movement, Mahdi Bazargan, Fada'iyan-e Islam, Reza Shah, National Front, Prophet Mohammad, Mardom-e Iran, Navvab-e Safavi, Iran Party, Manshoor-e Baradari, The Charter of Brotherhood, Toodeh Party, New Course, Sherkat-e Sahami-e Enteshar, Ayatollah Khomeini, Nehzat-e Azadi-e Iran, Bashar-e Maddi, Constitutional Revolution, Mohammad Nakhshab, Soviet Union, Khoda Parastan-e, National Resistance Movement, Rab-e Tei Shodeh, Ayatollah Kashani New!
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The unabated factionalism within the Islamic Republic of Iran in the past decade has shown that the Islamic Revolution has two different faces: a fundamentalist face and a modernist one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Socialist Theists, Iran Freedom Movement, Mahdi Bazargan, Fada'iyan-e Islam, Reza Shah, National Front, Prophet Mohammad, Mardom-e Iran, Navvab-e Safavi, Iran Party, Manshoor-e Baradari, The Charter of Brotherhood, Toodeh Party, New Course, Sherkat-e Sahami-e Enteshar, Ayatollah Khomeini, Nehzat-e Azadi-e Iran, Bashar-e Maddi, Constitutional Revolution, Mohammad Nakhshab, Soviet Union, Khoda Parastan-e, National Resistance Movement, Rab-e Tei Shodeh, Ayatollah Kashani New!
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- Iran Between Two Revolutions (Princeton Studies on the Near East) by Ervand Abrahamian on 4 pages
- The Iranian Mojahedin by Ervand Abrahamian on page 150, and Back Matter
- The Oxford Companion to Philosophy New Edition by Ted Honderich on page 156, and Back Matter
- The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat by Roger Scruton on page 164, and Back Matter
- A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World History (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Jan Palmowski on page 150, and Back Matter
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