By Farhang Rajaee
While many past books have probed the explanations of Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979, few have all in favour of the ability of faith in shaping a countrywide identification over the a long time prime as much as it. Islamism and Modernism captures the metamorphosis of the Islamic flow in Iran, from encounters with nice Britain and the USA within the Nineteen Twenties via twenty-first-century struggles among these trying to reform Islam's position and people who take a hardline protective stance.
Capturing the perspectives of 4 generations of Muslim activists, Farhang Rajahee describes how the extremism of the Nineteen Sixties introduced extra self assurance to involved Islam-minded Iranians and radicalized the Muslim international whereas Islamic possible choices to modernity have been offered. next ideologies gave upward thrust to the revolution, which in flip has fed a restructuring of Islam as a religion instead of as an ideology.
Presenting thought-provoking discussions of non secular thinkers similar to Ha'eri, Burujerdi, Bazargan, and Shari'ati, besides contemporaries similar to Kadivar, Soroush, and Shabestari, the writer sheds infrequent mild at the voices fueling modern Islamic pondering in Iran. A complete learn of those interwoven facets of politics, faith, society, and identification, Islamism and Modernism bargains an important new perception into the aftermath of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution fought 100 years ago—and its ramifications for the most recent new release to stand the crossroads of modernity and Islamic discourse in sleek Iran today.
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