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Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics - From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad (Paperback)
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Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics - From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
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A superstitious reading of the world based on religion may be
harmless at a private level, yet employed as a political tool it
can have more sinister implications. As this fascinating book by
Ali Rahnema, a distinguished Iranian intellectual, relates,
superstition and mystical beliefs have endured and influenced
ideology and political strategy in Iran from the founding of the
Safavid dynasty in the sixteenth century to the present day. The
endurance of these beliefs has its roots in a particular brand of
popular Shiism, which was compiled and systematized by the eminent
cleric Mohammad Baqer Majlesi in the seventeenth century. Majlesi,
who is considered by some to be the father of Iranian Shiism,
encouraged believers to accept fantastical notions as part of their
faith and to venerate their leaders as superhuman. As Rahnema
demonstrates through a close reading of the Persian sources and
with examples from contemporary Iranian politics, it is this
supposed connectedness to the hidden world that has allowed leaders
such as Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mahmud Ahmadinejad to
present themselves and their entourage as representatives of the
divine, and their rivals as the embodiment of evil.
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