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.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Siavash Saffari, Siavash (Seoul National University) Saffari
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781316615751
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61575-1
• Pagine: 219
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; 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