Reinventing Khomeini - The Struggle for Reform in Iran (Paperback, New edition)

Reinventing Khomeini offers a new interpretation of the political battles that paved the way for reform in Iran. Brumberg argues that these conflicts did not result from a sudden ideological shift; nor did the election of President Mohammad Khatami in 1997 really defy the core principles of the Islamic Revolution. To the contrary, the struggle for a more democratic Iran can be traced to the revolution itself, and to the contradictory agendas of the revolution's founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
A complex figure, Khomeini was a fervent champion of Islam, but while he sought a Shi'ite vision of clerical rule under one Supreme Leader, he also strove to mesh that vision with an implicitly Western view of mass participatory politics. The intense magnetism and charisma of the ayatollah obscured this paradox. But reformers in Iran today, while rejecting his autocratic vision, are reviving the constitutional notions of government that he considered, and even casting themselves as the bearers of his legacy. In Reinventing Khomeini, Brumberg proves that the ayatollah is as much the author of modern Iran as he is the symbol of its fundamentalist past.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2001
First published:	April 2001
Authors:	Daniel Brumberg
Dimensions:	23 x 16 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-07758-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
LSN:	0-226-07758-6
Barcode:	9780226077581

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