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Author Saffari, Siavash, author.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 213 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary A new reading of Ali Shariati's intellectual legacy on Iranian political discourse and concepts of Islam and modernity.
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Subject Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī.
Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī.
Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī.
Islam and world politics.
Islam and world politics.
Islam and politics -- Iran.
Islam and politics.
Iran.
Iran -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Iran -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Islam and state -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
Islam and state.
History.
Islam and state -- Iran -- History -- 21st century.
Intellectual life.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Middle Eastern.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Saffari, Siavash. Beyond Shariati. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107164161 1107164168 (OCoLC)971522632
ISBN 9781316753712 (electronic book)
1316753719 (electronic book)
9781316747926
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9781316686966
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9781316615751
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9781107164161
1107164168