'Ali Shari'ati and the shaping of political Islam in Iran /

While Ayatollah Khomeini is considered the face of the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, Ali Shari'ati is considered a much greater influence on shaping the revolutionary consciousness than Khomeini. Acceptable to both modernists as well as Islamists, Shari'ati's radicalism inspired...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Chatterjee, Kingshuk
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Middle East today.
Subjects:	Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī. Islam and politics > Iran. Muslim scholars > Iran. Iran > Politics and government.