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Religion and politics in contemporary Iran : clergy-state relations in the Pahlavī period

Title: Religion and politics in contemporary Iran : clergy-state relations in the Pahlavī period / Shahrough Akhavi.
Author: Akhavi, Shahrough, 1940-
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1980.

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xix, 255 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Indispensable for understanding the recent conflicts in Iran, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran provides a political history of the fluctuating relationships between the Islamic clergy and Iranian government since 1925. How different factions of the clergy, or ulama first lost and then regained a powerful position in Iran is the subject of this book. Akhavi analyzes how various factions within the clergy have responded to the government s efforts to encourage modernization and secularization, giving particular attention to the changes in the madrasahs, or theological colleges. He examines the main themes of the Ayatullah Khymayni's book, Islamic Government, and concludes by examining the alignments among the clergy in the past that indicate how they may develop in the future.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN

0873954084
9780873954082

LCCN

79022084

OCLC

ocm05495112
5495112
SCSB-13259

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Princeton University Library