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Iran's intellectual revolution

By Mehran Kamrava

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521897998, 9780521897990, 9780511438707, 9780521725187, 0521725186
LCC
DS266 .K35 2008
Open Library ID
OL20988753M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1361499 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Middle East studies 29
Edition
1
Pages
282\282
Topic
History
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Since its revolution in 1979, Iran has been viewed as the bastion of radical Islam and a sponsor of terrorism. The focus on its volatile internal politics and its foreign relations has, according to Kamrava, distracted attention from more subtle transformations which have been taking place there in the intervening years. With the death of Ayatollah Khomeini a more relaxed political environment opened up in Iran, which encouraged intellectual and political debate between learned elites and religious reformers. What emerged from these interactions were three competing ideologies which Kamrava categorises as conservative, reformist and secular. As the book aptly demonstrates, these developments, which amount to an intellectual revolution, will have profound and far-reaching consequences for the future of the Islamic republic, its people and very probably for countries beyond its borders. This thought-provoking account of the Iranian intellectual and cultural scene will confound stereotypical views of Iran and its mullahs.

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