Religious statecraft : the politics of Islam in Iran /

Since the 1979 revolution, scholars and policy makers alike have tended to see Iranian political actors as religiously driven--dedicated to overturning the international order in line with a theologically prescribed outlook. This provocative book argues that such views have the link between religiou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Series:	Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
Subjects:	Islam and politics > Iran > History > 20th century. Islam and politics > Iran > History > 21st century. Shīʻah > Iran. Iran > Politics and government > 1979-1997. Iran > Politics and government > 1997- Islam and politics. Politics and government. Shīʻah. Iran. Since 1900 History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the politics of Islam
Factional causes and religious consequences of politics
A shi'a theory of the state
The "Islamic" revolution
Institutionalizing velayat-e faqih
The hostage crisis : the untold account of the Communist threat
Religion and elite competition in the Iran-Iraq war
The metamorphosis of Islamism after the war
The factional battle over Khomeini's velayat-e faqih
Media, religion, and the green movement
Historical revisionism and regional threats
The domestic sources of nuclear politics.