Beyond Shariati : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian political thought /
Saffari, Siavash,
Beyond Shariati : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian political thought / [electronic resource] Siavash Saffari. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (vi, 213 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Introduction; Unsettling a Hegemonic Paradigm; The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Thinker; Islam and Modernity through the Lens of Dialogical Comparison; Chapters' Summaries; 1 Postrevolutionary Readings of a Revolutionary Islamic Discourse; Revolution, Ideology, and the "Geography of Discourse"; Shariati as the Ideologue of the 1979 Revolution; An Unfinished Project of "Indigenous Modernity"; 2 Islamic Thought in Encounter with Colonial Modernity; What Is in a Term?; Responses to an Encounter; Islamic Modernism. IslamismReformism; Contesting Genealogies of Emergent Islamic Modernities; 3 A Postcolonial Discourse of Public Religion; Reworking the Religious/Secular Binary; "Islamic Protestantism" as a Methodology of Bottom-Up Change; Progressive Public Religion under Islamist Ascendancy; Neo-Shariatis and Islamic Liberalism; 4 The Enlightenment Subject and a Religiously Mediated Subjectivity; The Philosophical Foundations of an Islamic Discourse; Modern Subjectivity and the Mediated Subject; Secularization and the "Myth" of the Enlightenment; The Descent: A Theistic Narrative of Subjectivity. Religious Ontology and the Rights-Bearing Subject5 Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Civilizational Framework; Civilization as a Critique of Westernization; The Civilizational Framework Revisited; Civilizational Analysis in Neo-Shariati Thought; Reworking the Framework; Conclusion; A Postcolonial Reclaiming of Islam and Modernity; Indigenous Modernity and the Post-Islamist Turn; Indigenization and the Quest for Universalism from Below; Select Bibliography; English Sources; Persian Sources; Index.
A new reading of Ali Shariati's intellectual legacy on Iranian political discourse and concepts of Islam and modernity.
9781316753712 1316753719 9781316747926 1316747921 9781316686966 1316686965
Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī
Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī.
Islam and world politics.
Islam and politics--Iran.
Islam and state--History--Iran--20th century.
Islam and state--History--Iran--21st century.
Iran--Intellectual life--20th century.
Iran--Intellectual life--21st century.
Electronic Books.
BP173.5
Beyond Shariati : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian political thought / [electronic resource] Siavash Saffari. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (vi, 213 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Introduction; Unsettling a Hegemonic Paradigm; The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Thinker; Islam and Modernity through the Lens of Dialogical Comparison; Chapters' Summaries; 1 Postrevolutionary Readings of a Revolutionary Islamic Discourse; Revolution, Ideology, and the "Geography of Discourse"; Shariati as the Ideologue of the 1979 Revolution; An Unfinished Project of "Indigenous Modernity"; 2 Islamic Thought in Encounter with Colonial Modernity; What Is in a Term?; Responses to an Encounter; Islamic Modernism. IslamismReformism; Contesting Genealogies of Emergent Islamic Modernities; 3 A Postcolonial Discourse of Public Religion; Reworking the Religious/Secular Binary; "Islamic Protestantism" as a Methodology of Bottom-Up Change; Progressive Public Religion under Islamist Ascendancy; Neo-Shariatis and Islamic Liberalism; 4 The Enlightenment Subject and a Religiously Mediated Subjectivity; The Philosophical Foundations of an Islamic Discourse; Modern Subjectivity and the Mediated Subject; Secularization and the "Myth" of the Enlightenment; The Descent: A Theistic Narrative of Subjectivity. Religious Ontology and the Rights-Bearing Subject5 Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Civilizational Framework; Civilization as a Critique of Westernization; The Civilizational Framework Revisited; Civilizational Analysis in Neo-Shariati Thought; Reworking the Framework; Conclusion; A Postcolonial Reclaiming of Islam and Modernity; Indigenous Modernity and the Post-Islamist Turn; Indigenization and the Quest for Universalism from Below; Select Bibliography; English Sources; Persian Sources; Index.
A new reading of Ali Shariati's intellectual legacy on Iranian political discourse and concepts of Islam and modernity.
9781316753712 1316753719 9781316747926 1316747921 9781316686966 1316686965
Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī
Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī.
Islam and world politics.
Islam and politics--Iran.
Islam and state--History--Iran--20th century.
Islam and state--History--Iran--21st century.
Iran--Intellectual life--20th century.
Iran--Intellectual life--21st century.
Electronic Books.
BP173.5