Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz.

Islam and dissent in postrevolutionary Iran : Abdolkarim Soroush, religious politics and democratic reform / Islam & dissent in postrevolutionary Iran Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi. - London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; 2008. - viii, 311 p. ; 24 cm. - International library of Iranian studies ; 16 . - International library of Iranian studies ; 16. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-302) and index.

Introduction : ideological certainties, past and present -- The Islamic roots of modernity and the modern roots of Islamism -- Legitimizing the postrevolutionary regime : the genesis of the new constitution -- Abdolkarim Soroush : the intellectual voice of the Islamic Republic -- From the reign of terror to let a thousand flowers bloom -- From liberation theology to state ideology : Shari'ati and the emergence of new religious intellectuals -- The silence of the Shari'ah : Abdolkarim Soroush and the theological foundations of political reform -- Islam, democracy, and religious pluralism -- Conclusion : social change and the symbolic universe of religion.

9781845118808 (pbk.) 9781845118792 (hbk.)

2009275649


Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm.


Islam and politics--Iran.


Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.
Iran--Politics and government--1997-
Iran--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1979

DS318.825 / .G475 2008

955.054 / G411