'ali Shari'ati and the Shaping of Political Islam in Iran

ISBN-13: 9780230113336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 274 str.

Kingshuk Chatterjee

Opis

This book 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Kingshuk Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Calcutta University.