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

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

Siavash Saffari is an assistant professor of West Asian Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Seoul National University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alberta, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, New York.

Summary

This book, for researchers of Iranian political thought, post-revolutionary Iran and its effect on the wider Middle East, provides a new reading of Shariati's intellectual legacy, focusing on the theoretical deconstruction of the Islam/Modernity binary and examining the role of neo-Shariatis in modern Iranian political thought.

Product details

• Authors: Siavash Saffari, Siavash (Seoul National University) Saffari
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781316615751
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61575-1
• No. of pages: 219
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Islam, Iran, English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Middle East, Theology, Religion & beliefs, Humanities, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1960 to c 1970, Islamic Theology, Philosophy of religion, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990