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Beyond Shariati : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian political thought / Siavash Saffari.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 213 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316753712
  • 9781316747926
  • 9781316686966
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BP173 .B496 2017
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Contents:
Subject: A new reading of Ali Shariati's intellectual legacy on Iranian political discourse and concepts of Islam and modernity.
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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.

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