Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 441 pages)
ISBN:
9781108681834
Series Statement:
The Global Middle East
Content:
The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and the marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite, in tandem with the end of the Cold War, harboured immense intellectual and political repercussions for the Iranian state and society. It was these events which created the conditions for the emergence of Iran's post-revolutionary reform movement, as its intellectuals and political leaders sought to re-evaluate the foundations of the Islamic state's political legitimacy and religious authority. In this monograph, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, examines the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran and analyses the complex network of publications, study circles, and think-tanks that encompassed a range of prominent politicians and intellectuals in the 1990s. In his meticulous account of the relationships between the post-revolutionary political class and intelligentsia, he explores a panoply of political and ideological issues still vital to understanding Iran's revolutionary state, such as the ruling political theology of the 'Guardianship of the Jurist', the political elite's engagem
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108426343
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108445061
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108426343
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Eskandar, 1982 - Revolution and its discontents Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781108426343
Language:
English
Keywords:
Iran
;
Islamische Revolution
;
Politik
;
Geschichte 1979-1997
DOI:
10.1017/9781108681834
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