Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Yadullah Shahibzadeh

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3. The Crisis of Political Leadership

   • Yadullah Shahibzadeh

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4. Islamist Totalism

   • Yadullah Shahibzadeh

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5. Islamism in Power

   • Yadullah Shahibzadeh

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6. Post-Islamist Perspectivism

   • Yadullah Shahibzadeh

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7. Post-Islamism and Democracy

   • Yadullah Shahibzadeh

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8. Post-Islamism Versus Neoconservatism

   • Yadullah Shahibzadeh

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9. Conclusion

   • Yadullah Shahibzadeh

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10. Back Matter

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This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran’s contemporary political and intellectual history. It investigates the way Iranian Muslim intellectuals have discussed politics and democracy. As a history of Iranian Islamism and its transformation to post-Islamism, this work demonstrates that Muslim intellectuals have enriched the Iranian society epistemologically, aesthetically, ethically, and politically. This book examines the internal conflicts of the Islamist ideology as the intellectual underpinnings of the 1979 Revolution, its contribution to the formation of the post-revolutionary state, and  the post-Islamist response to the democratic deficits of the post-revolutionary state. Seeking to overcome the shortcomings of historiographical approaches, this book demonstrates the intellectual and political agency of Muslim intellectuals from the 1960s to the present.

• Iranian intellectuals
• Muslim intellectuals
• Islamist intellectuals
• Islamist ideology
• 1979 Revolution
• Iranian Revolution
• Iranian Constitution
• Oil nationalization
• Reform Movement
• Green Movement
• Shariati
• Khomeini
• Soroush
• Shabestari
• Ganji
• Khatami
• Hajarian
• Makhmalbaf
• Alavitabar
• Neoconservative intellectuals

Selected by Choice magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2016

“This is the best study yet of the intellectual, religious, philosophical, and political changes that occurred in Iran from 1990s to the present. … Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (R. W. Olson, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)

• Oslo, Norway

  Yadullah Shahibzadeh

Yadullah Shahibzadeh is Researcher and Instructor of Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He holds Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degrees from the University of Oslo.

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