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Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernlization : Negotiating modernity in Iran

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Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000Description: 227p xiiiISBN:
  • 9781280432477
  • 9780521659970
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 955.050000 MIR
Contents:
Contents Introduction: modernity and "culture" 1. Western narratives of modernity. Orientalism and the Occidentalist discontent. Montesquieu's Persian Letters. Hegel: the colonization of world history. Karl Marx: the materialist narrative of modernity. The "popularization" of the Islamic Other; 2. Reconciling with the West's Other. The Mashruteh movement: reconciliation through capitulation; 3. The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam. The decline of democratic secularism (1941-53). Modernization and its discontent. The politicization of Shi'ism. Reform in Shi'i institutions; 4. Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati. Al-e Ahmad: "return" to the "roots" Ali Shari'ati: Islamic ideology as an authentic discourse
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Contents
Introduction: modernity and "culture"
1. Western narratives of modernity. Orientalism and the Occidentalist discontent. Montesquieu's Persian Letters. Hegel: the colonization of world history. Karl Marx: the materialist narrative of modernity. The "popularization" of the Islamic Other;
2. Reconciling with the West's Other. The Mashruteh movement: reconciliation through capitulation;
3. The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam. The decline of democratic secularism (1941-53). Modernization and its discontent. The politicization of Shi'ism. Reform in Shi'i institutions;
4. Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati. Al-e Ahmad: "return" to the "roots" Ali Shari'ati: Islamic ideology as an authentic discourse