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Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization : negotiating modernity in Iran, Ali Mirsepassi

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  • "In this study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focussing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The author argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity, culture and historical experience. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular
  • This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of social theory and change, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many related areas."--Jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
Contents
  • 2.
  • Reconciling with the West's Other.
  • The Mashruteh movement: reconciliation through capitulation
  • 3.
  • The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam.
  • The decline of democratic secularism (1941-53).
  • Modernization and its discontent.
  • The politicization of Shi'ism.
  • Reform in Shi'i institutions
  • 4.
  • Introduction: modernity and "culture"
  • Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati.
  • Al-e Ahmad: "return" to the "roots"
  • Ali Shari'ati: Islamic ideology as an authentic discourse
  • 1.
  • Western narratives of modernity.
  • Orientalism and the Occidentalist discontent.
  • Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
  • Hegel: the colonization of world history.
  • Karl Marx: the materialist narrative of modernity.
  • The "popularization" of the Islamic Other
Isbn
9780521650007
Instance
Label
Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization : negotiating modernity in Iran
Title
Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization
Title remainder
negotiating modernity in Iran
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Ali Mirsepassi
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "In this study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focussing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The author argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity, culture and historical experience. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular
  • This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of social theory and change, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many related areas."--Jacket
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Mirsepassi, Ali
Dewey number
955.05
Index
index present
LC call number
DS316.6
LC item number
.M57 2000eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Cambridge cultural social studies
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  • Iran
  • Politics and culture
  • Islam and politics
  • Islam and secularism
  • HISTORY
  • Islam and politics
  • Islam and secularism
  • Politics and government
  • Politics and culture
  • Iran
  • Islam
  • Fundamentalismus
  • Moderne
  • Iran
  • Politieke cultuur
  • Vernieuwing
  • Islamisering
  • Politique et culture
  • Islam et politique
  • Modernité
  • Iran
Label
Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization : negotiating modernity in Iran, Ali Mirsepassi
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-223) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 2.
  • Reconciling with the West's Other.
  • The Mashruteh movement: reconciliation through capitulation
  • 3.
  • The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam.
  • The decline of democratic secularism (1941-53).
  • Modernization and its discontent.
  • The politicization of Shi'ism.
  • Reform in Shi'i institutions
  • 4.
  • Introduction: modernity and "culture"
  • Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati.
  • Al-e Ahmad: "return" to the "roots"
  • Ali Shari'ati: Islamic ideology as an authentic discourse
  • 1.
  • Western narratives of modernity.
  • Orientalism and the Occidentalist discontent.
  • Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
  • Hegel: the colonization of world history.
  • Karl Marx: the materialist narrative of modernity.
  • The "popularization" of the Islamic Other
Control code
51028858
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780521650007
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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ebl144701
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)51028858
Label
Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization : negotiating modernity in Iran, Ali Mirsepassi
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-223) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 2.
  • Reconciling with the West's Other.
  • The Mashruteh movement: reconciliation through capitulation
  • 3.
  • The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam.
  • The decline of democratic secularism (1941-53).
  • Modernization and its discontent.
  • The politicization of Shi'ism.
  • Reform in Shi'i institutions
  • 4.
  • Introduction: modernity and "culture"
  • Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati.
  • Al-e Ahmad: "return" to the "roots"
  • Ali Shari'ati: Islamic ideology as an authentic discourse
  • 1.
  • Western narratives of modernity.
  • Orientalism and the Occidentalist discontent.
  • Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
  • Hegel: the colonization of world history.
  • Karl Marx: the materialist narrative of modernity.
  • The "popularization" of the Islamic Other
Control code
51028858
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780521650007
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
ebl144701
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)51028858

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