Compared to rival ideologies, liberalism has fared rather poorly in
modern Iran. This is all the more remarkable given the essentially
liberal substance of various social and political struggles - for
liberal legality, individual rights and freedoms, and pluralism -
in the century-long period since the demise of the Qajar dynasty
and the subsequent transformation of the country into a modern
nation-state. The deeply felt but largely invisible purchase of
liberal political ideas in Iran challenges us to think more
expansively about the trajectory of various intellectual
developments since the emergence of a movement for reform and
constitutionalism in the late nineteenth century. It complicates
parsimonious accounts of Shi'ism, secularism, socialism,
nationalism, and royalism as defining or representative ideologies
of particular eras. Hidden Liberalism offers a critical examination
of the reasons behind liberalism's invisible yet influential
status, and its attendant ethical quandaries, in Iranian political
and intellectual discourses.
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