This volume engages critically with the Islamic perspective and promises offered by the revolution in Iran. It looks at the rise of the religious institution as a revolutionary force, the author observes their post-revolutionary policies in the domains of politics, economics, education, the armed forces and women's status, observing that the government has failed to deliver on most of its pledges. Thus the book provides an analysis of the various Islamic perspectives advocated by Islamist groups before the revolution and it traces the paths to success and failure of different Islamic groups in the post-revolutionary state of Iran.
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Islam and the Post-Revolutionary State in Iran,
By Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Islam and the Post-Revolutionary State in Iran (Hardcover)
The Islamic Republic of Iran ranks as one of the world's great exporters of conspiracy theories, vitriol, and intimidation. So, it's admittedly refreshing to find a polemic (perhaps the best one in English) directed against, rather than from, the mullahs of Iran. Omid openly sympathizes with the leftist elements who had intended to inherit the Revolution of `79 -- but who found that the wily old ayatollah had cut them out before they could exclude him. Although her account clearly reflects the lingering resentment of what she terms "the revolution betrayed," it is also sufficiently balanced and documented to convince an outsider that her criticism is justified. And Omid is relentlessly negative about the Islamic Republic, deeming it "theocratic fascism" and presenting Khomeini's creation of the "devout, fanatical" revolutionary guards as an action "not unlike that of the formation of Hitler's SS." Moreover, the author holds that the Islamic Republic even failed to achieve its own goals. Most spectacularly, it did not advance the cause of Islam; rather, its actions went "against the very core of Shiism" and its policies rendered Islam "more of a posture than a reality." For example, even the "pretence of Islamification of the economy has been abandoned" as the country again turns to the West for relief from its miseries. In all, Omid concludes, the Islamic Republic has been an "abysmal failure" Middle East Quarterly, March 1995
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