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'Ali Shari'ati and the shaping of political Islam in Iran
- Title
- 'Ali Shari'ati and the shaping of political Islam in Iran / Kingshuk Chatterjee.
- Author
- Chatterjee, Kingshuk.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 274 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "While Ayatollah Khomeini is considered the face of the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, Ali Shari'ati is considered a much greater influence on shaping the revolutionary consciousness than Khomeini. Acceptable to both modernists as well as Islamists, Shari'ati's radicalism inspired much of the resistance in urban Iran in the closing years of the Shah. Ali Shari'ati and the Shaping of Political Islam in Iran tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public, and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy"--
- Series Statement
- Middle East today
- Uniform Title
- Middle East today.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and index.
- Contents
- The languages of power and politics in modern Iran -- Language of opposition politics in late Pahlavi Iran -- The world as Tauheed: envisaging an Islamic alternative -- The purpose of political order: the state or the people? -- Sovereignty as responsibility: Mazhab-e Aitraz -- The individual as an agent of change: Khudsazi-ye Inqilabi -- The ripples of a revolution -- Appendix: Shi'ism- a brief sketch of the early years -- Appendix II: Selected works/lectures of 'Ali Shari'ati.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-495
- ISBN
- 9780230113336 (hardback)
- 0230113338 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010049232
- OCLC
- YBP 2010049232
- Author
- Chatterjee, Kingshuk.
- Title
- 'Ali Shari'ati and the shaping of political Islam in Iran / Kingshuk Chatterjee.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Middle East todayMiddle East today.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-495