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It is quite possible that before too long the Iranian people will
chase the Pahlavi dictator and his associates from power… So
wrote historian Fred Halliday in the conclusion to this prescient
work on Iran in the twentieth century. Just months later the
revolution of 1979 saw Shah Reza Pahlavi ousted and an Islamic
theocracy established under Ayatollah Khomeini. Following a
contextual study of the origins of the Iranian state, Halliday
focuses on the period from the early 1960s to 1978, when protests
swept the nation for the first time in fifteen years. Through an
interdisciplinary approach, he assesses the prevailing economic,
social and political conditions, taking in the nation’s uneven
capitalist development, opposition movements and state repression,
and the alliance between the Shah and the United States. Even three
decades on, this classic study – unique in its proximity to the
revolution – offers many insights into why and how the Shah’s
reign came to an end.
This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of
political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Written by historians, political scientists, and sociologists of
the region, the book provides a pertinent analytical framework to
understand the often complex and turbulent histories of these
political parties, their role within the region, and their
prospects in the wake of the post-2011 Arab Uprisings. The authors
explore a rich and varied range of case studies including Iran,
Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco. This book examines
where political parties and organizations have been crucial to
shaping contemporary historical events and political contestation,
but also highlights their shortcomings and failures to deliver on
the ambitions and hopes they had often evoked amongst their
supporters. Furthermore, it looks at how political parties and
their activities have intersected with important issues and themes
such as gender, human rights, international solidarity, revolution
and social transformation, and sectarian identity. This book will
be of great interest to students and researchers of political
science, particularly within the MENA region. It was originally
published as a special issue of the British Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies.
This comprehensive collection addresses the important question of
political parties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Written by historians, political scientists, and sociologists of
the region, the book provides a pertinent analytical framework to
understand the often complex and turbulent histories of these
political parties, their role within the region, and their
prospects in the wake of the post-2011 Arab Uprisings. The authors
explore a rich and varied range of case studies including Iran,
Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, and Morocco. This book examines
where political parties and organizations have been crucial to
shaping contemporary historical events and political contestation,
but also highlights their shortcomings and failures to deliver on
the ambitions and hopes they had often evoked amongst their
supporters. Furthermore, it looks at how political parties and
their activities have intersected with important issues and themes
such as gender, human rights, international solidarity, revolution
and social transformation, and sectarian identity. This book will
be of great interest to students and researchers of political
science, particularly within the MENA region. It was originally
published as a special issue of the British Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies.
The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch,
Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and
the marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite,
in tandem with the end of the Cold War, harboured immense
intellectual and political repercussions for the Iranian state and
society. It was these events which created the conditions for the
emergence of Iran's post-revolutionary reform movement, as its
intellectuals and political leaders sought to re-evaluate the
foundations of the Islamic state's political legitimacy and
religious authority. In this monograph, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi,
examines the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in
Iran and analyses the complex network of publications, study
circles, and think-tanks that encompassed a range of prominent
politicians and intellectuals in the 1990s. In his meticulous
account of the relationships between the post-revolutionary
political class and intelligentsia, he explores a panoply of
political and ideological issues still vital to understanding
Iran's revolutionary state, such as the ruling political theology
of the 'Guardianship of the Jurist', the political elite's
engagement with questions of Islamic statehood, democracy and
constitutionalism, and their critiques of revolutionary agency and
social transformation.
The death of the Islamic Republic's revolutionary patriarch,
Ayatollah Khomeini, the bitter denouement of the Iran-Iraq War, and
the marginalisation of leading factions within the political elite,
in tandem with the end of the Cold War, harboured immense
intellectual and political repercussions for the Iranian state and
society. It was these events which created the conditions for the
emergence of Iran's post-revolutionary reform movement, as its
intellectuals and political leaders sought to re-evaluate the
foundations of the Islamic state's political legitimacy and
religious authority. In this monograph, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi,
examines the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in
Iran and analyses the complex network of publications, study
circles, and think-tanks that encompassed a range of prominent
politicians and intellectuals in the 1990s. In his meticulous
account of the relationships between the post-revolutionary
political class and intelligentsia, he explores a panoply of
political and ideological issues still vital to understanding
Iran's revolutionary state, such as the ruling political theology
of the 'Guardianship of the Jurist', the political elite's
engagement with questions of Islamic statehood, democracy and
constitutionalism, and their critiques of revolutionary agency and
social transformation.
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