The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the clerical leadership of KhurasaniMateo Mohammad Farzaneh.

Farzaneh, Mateo Mohammad.

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the clerical leadership of KhurasaniMateo Mohammad Farzaneh. - First edition. - Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part I. The Iranian state and religion -- Tribal fighters become shahs -- Apprehensive modernization and the birth of Iranian intellectualism -- Unhappy merchants and the revolution for law -- Shi'ism and key institutions of leadership -- Shi'ite Iran and the state -- Part II. Khurasani and constitutionalism -- Akhund Khurasani: his life and works -- An Islamic jurist's thought, politics, and practice -- Religious justification and Khurasani's perception of constitutionalism -- Ijtihad and politics -- Part III. A house divided -- Shaykh Fazlullah vs. Akhund Khurasani -- Fundamental differences between Nuri and Khurasani.



9780815653110


Khurāsānī, Muḥammad Kāẓim, 1839 or 1840-1911.


Constitutional history--Iran.


Electronic Books.

DS313 / .I736 2015