While many previous books have probed the causes of Iran's Islamic
Revolution of 1979, few have focused on the power of religion in
shaping a national identity over the decades leading up to it.
Islamism and Modernism captures the metamorphosis of the Islamic
movement in Iran, from encounters with Great Britain and the United
States in the 1920s through twenty-first-century struggles between
those seeking to reform Islam's role and those who take a hardline
defensive stance.
Capturing the views of four generations of Muslim activists,
Farhang Rajahee describes how the extremism of the 1960s brought
more confidence to concerned Islam-minded Iranians and radicalized
the Muslim world while Islamic alternatives to modernity were
presented. Subsequent ideologies gave rise to the revolution, which
in turn has fed a restructuring of Islam as a faith rather than as
an ideology.
Presenting thought-provoking discussions of religious thinkers
such as Ha'eri, Burujerdi, Bazargan, and Shari'ati, along with
contemporaries such as Kadivar, Soroush, and Shabestari, the author
sheds rare light on the voices fueling contemporary Islamic
thinking in Iran. A comprehensive study of these interwoven aspects
of politics, religion, society, and identity, Islamism and
Modernism offers crucial new insight into the aftermath of the
Iranian Constitutional Revolution fought one hundred years ago--and
its ramifications for the newest generation to face the crossroads
of modernity and Islamic discourse in modern Iran today.
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