Iranian Intellectuals Discursive Articulations Of The West
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Iranian Intellectuals Discursive Articulations Of The West
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Author : Mohammad Sarvi Zargar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Iranian Intellectuals Discursive Articulations Of The West written by Mohammad Sarvi Zargar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Intellectual Discourse And The Politics Of Modernization
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Author : Ali Mirsepassi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-12
Intellectual Discourse And The Politics Of Modernization written by Ali Mirsepassi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-12 with History categories.
In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The author 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, culture and historical experience. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular. A significant contribution to the literature on modernity, social change and Islamic Studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of social theory and change, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many related areas.
Iranian Intellectuals And The West
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Author : Mehrzad Boroujerdi
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1996-12-01
Iranian Intellectuals And The West written by Mehrzad Boroujerdi and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-01 with Social Science categories.
These intellectuals (both religious and secular) appropriated Islam as the vehicle through which they could most effectively challenge or accommodate modernity and Westernization. Through such a fitting appropriation, Boroujerdi asserts, could modern Iranian thinkers lay the foundation for a nativist vision of an unsullied culture, seemingly free of Western influence.
Political Islam Iran And The Enlightenment
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Author : Ali Mirsepassi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-06
Political Islam Iran And The Enlightenment written by Ali Mirsepassi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-06 with Social Science categories.
Ali Mirsepassi's book presents a powerful challenge to the dominant media and scholarly construction of radical Islamist politics, and their anti-Western ideology, as a purely Islamic phenomenon derived from insular, traditional and monolithic religious 'foundations'. It argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends. The work demonstrates this by establishing links between important contemporary Iranian intellectuals and the central influence of Martin Heidegger's philosophy. We are also introduced to new democratic narratives of modernity linked to diverse intellectual trends in the West and in non-Western societies, notably in India, where the ideas of John Dewey have influenced important democratic social movements. As the first book to make such connections, it promises to be an important contribution to the field and will do much to overturn some pervasive assumptions about the dichotomy between East and West.
Mapping The Role Of Intellectuals In Iranian Modern And Contemporary History
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Author : Ramin Jahanbegloo
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-12-10
Mapping The Role Of Intellectuals In Iranian Modern And Contemporary History written by Ramin Jahanbegloo and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Political Science categories.
In Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History, Jahanbegloo and contributors examine the role of Iranian intellectuals in the history of Iranian modernity. They trace the contributions of intellectuals in the construction of national identity and the Iranian democratic debate, analyzing how intellectuals balanced indebtedness to the West with the issue of national identity in Iran. Recognizing how intellectual elites became beholden to political powers, the contributors demonstrate the trend that intellectuals often opted for cultural dissent rather than ideological politics.
Political Islam In Post Revolutionary Iran
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Author : Majid Mohammadi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-05-05
Political Islam In Post Revolutionary Iran written by Majid Mohammadi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-05 with Political Science categories.
The relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Western World is fraught with challenges and tensions. In order to generate the capacity for greater engagement and dialogue, there is a need for the West to better understand the complex ideological developments that are central to Iran. Majid Mohammadi charts the central concepts and nuances of the ideological map of post-revolutionary Iran, and examines the rise and development of Shi'i Islamism. He recognizes that the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iranian political discourse are the outcome of contesting perspectives and ideologies: identity-oriented, socialist, nationalist, authoritarian, Shari'a, scripturalist, mystical, militarist and fascist. This is a comprehensive, comparative contribution to one of today's most important topics: that of the relationship between Political Islam and the West.
A Letter To Intellectuals
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Author : Ahmad Nosrati
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2004-03-02
A Letter To Intellectuals written by Ahmad Nosrati and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-02 with Political Science categories.
After an intensive review of political history involving the relations of Iran with the West and with Russia during the period between the French Revolution and the present, it became apparent to me that at the expense of an always strategically important Iranian nation, these global entities were always shaping their policies so as to benefit themselves at the expense of the welfare of the Iranian people. I felt that there was always something shamefully amiss in the dealings of the Western powers and of Russia with our country (that was derived from a once majestic and imperial Persian empire), and that the outcome of such international diplomacy was invariable injurious and detrimental to the integrity of our rich Motherland. While recording my analysis of certain imbalanced circumstances, I sought for a solution to these inequities. I arrived at an answer that I have chosen to term, "the Iranian Great Revolution", which depends chiefly upon the careful and thoughtful construction of a new constitution by devoted intellectuals - Iranians and multi-nationals - from all over the world. Such individuals would apply their specialized expertise to the creation of a comprehensive document guaranteeing absolute justice and fairness to all subscribers, and it would not allow for any social or religious abuse to take place. Equality in all relationships - domestic and global - is to be the theme of this writ, and its institution will be the elective choice of the Iranian people. A challenge to all Intellectuals to organize and to achieve this constitutional process is my design.
Intellectuals And The State In Iran
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Author : Negin Nabavi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Intellectuals And The State In Iran written by Negin Nabavi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
"Impressive [and] cogently argued. . . . shows how and why Iran's secular intellectuals gradually changed their generally negative perception of Islam in the three decades prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With convincing evidence, [Nabavi] shows that Islam and mysticism had gained growing popularity among the secular intellectuals in the years preceding the revolution. . . . A must read for anyone interested in the intellectual history of pre-revolutionary Iran."--Mohsen Milani, University of South Florida, author of The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic In the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, secularist intellectuals became a much-forgotten group. As the new revolutionary elite consolidated, secularists were marginalized, stigmatized, and accused of being "Westoxicated" and of "propagating Western values." And yet, Nabavi shows for the first time, the secularists played an important role in enabling the revolution to take the shape that it did in 1978-79. The revolution that brought Ayatollah Khomeini into power was as much the revolution of the secularists as it was of Islamist forces. Drawing on Iranian intellectual periodicals and journals and focusing on a wide range of liberal, left-leaning writers and essayists--many of whom have never been translated, let alone written about--Nabavi re-creates the changing mood within secular intellectual circles in the decades that preceded the revolution. She provides an account of the intellectuals' trajectory from the old days of their membership in the Communist Tudeh Party in the early 1940s, when there was a party line, to the days when they became confused and constrained about what they could do and say. She discusses their changing perception of what it was to be an intellectual together with their shifting view of religion and Islam in particular, which came to find increasing expression among secular circles in the 1970s, as one of the most forceful components of the idea of "authentic culture." Intellectuals and the State in Iran will appeal to historians and political scientists with an interest in the cultural and intellectual aspects of social change and the question of the synthesis of religion and politics. Negin Nabavi is assistant professor in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
Iranian Intellectuals In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Ali Gheissari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Iranian Intellectuals In The Twentieth Century written by Ali Gheissari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Iranian intellectuals have been preoccupied by issues of political and social reform, Iran's relation with the modern West, and autocracy, or arbitrary rule. Drawing from a close reading of a broad array of primary sources, this book offers a thematic account of the Iranian intelligentsia from the Constitutional movement of 1905 to the post-1979 revolution. Ali Gheissari shows how in Iran, as in many other countries, intellectuals have been the prime mediators between the forces of tradition and modernity and have contributed significantly to the formation of the modern Iranian self image. His analysis of intellectuals' response to a number of fundamental questions, such as nationalism, identity, and the relation between Islam and modern politics, sheds new light on the factors that led to the Iranian Revolution—the twentieth century's first major departure from Western political ideals—and helps explain the complexities surrounding the reception of Western ideologies in the Middle East.
Iranian Intellectuals And The West
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Author : Mehrzad Boroujerdi
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1996-11-01
Iranian Intellectuals And The West written by Mehrzad Boroujerdi and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Mehrzad Boroujerdi challenges the way many Americans perceive present-day Iran as well as how Iranians view the West. He examines the works of thinkers seminal in defining modern Iran (virtually unknown in the U.S.) and concludes that Islam was not the primary source of their inspiration. Their efforts forge an "authentic" national identity lay at the heart of Iranian thought. These intellectuals (both religious and secular) appropriated Islam as the vehicle through which they could most effectively challenge or accommodate modernity and Westernization. Through such a fitting appropriation, Boroujerdi asserts, could modern Iranian thinkers lay the foundation for a nativist vision of an unsullied culture, seemingly free of Western influence. Drawing on the works of Michel Foucault and Edward Said, this book explore how Iranians use their own misunderstandings about the West to form their own identity and, in return, how Westerns describe Iran in negative terms to help them reaffirm the superiority of their own culture. Boroujerdi also argues that Iranian intellectuals have been deeply indebted to Western thought, which has served as the cultural reference through which they continue to struggle with issues of identity and selfhood.