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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran

Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran

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Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

IslamGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521659973
ISBN13: 9780521659970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 12 2000
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In this thought-provoking book, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity and exposes the Eurocentric prejudices underlying its development. He provides a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through a detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals and argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular.

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