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

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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.
Table of Contents:
  • The languages of power and politics in modern Iran
  • Language of opposition politics in late Pahlavi Iran
  • The world as Tauheed: envisaging an Islamic alternative
  • The purpose of political order: the state or the people?
  • Sovereignty as responsibility: Mazhab-e Aitraz
  • The individual as an agent of change: Khudsazi-ye Inqilabi
  • The ripples of a revolution
  • Appendix: Shi'ism- a brief sketch of the early years
  • Appendix II: Selected works/lectures of 'Ali Shari'ati.