Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought

ISBN-13: 9781316615751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 219 str.

Siavash Saffari

Opis

A new reading of Ali Shariati's intellectual legacy on Iranian political discourse and concepts of Islam and modernity.

Recenzje

'In recent times, the relation between Western modernity and Islam has been a prominent topic of social-theoretical discussions … By focusing attention on the Iranian intellectual Ali Shariati and his later followers (the 'neo-Shariatis'), Saffari shows that customary binaries - such as 'Western universalism' vs 'Islamic parochialism' - are hasty abstractions and also neglect a crucial geopolitical binary: that between center and periphery, between colonizers and colonized.' Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Spis treści

Introduction: between cultural essentialism and hegemonic universalism; 1. Post-revolutionary readings of a revolutionary Islamic discourse; 2. Islamic thought in encounter with colonial modernity; 3. A postcolonial discourse of public religion; 4. The enlightenment subject and a religiously mediated subjectivity; 5. Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the civilizational framework; Conclusion: toward a postcolonial cosmopolitanism; Bibliography.