Democracy in Modern Iran : Islam, Culture, and Political Change.

Can Islamic societies embrace democracy? In Democracy in Modern Iran, Ali Mirsepassi maintains that it is possible, demonstrating that Islam is not inherently hostile to the idea of democracy. Rather, he provides new perspective on how such a political and social transformation could take place, arg...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Mirsepassi, Ali (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qfns0
جدول المحتويات:
  • Acknowledgments; Preface: "Where Is My Vote?"; Introduction: Democracy and Culture; 1 The Origins of Secularism in Europe; 2 Modern Visions of Secularism; 3 A Critical Understanding of Modernity; 4 Intellectuals and Democracy; 5 Religious Intellectuals; 6 Alireza Alavi-Tabar and Political Change; 7 The Predicaments of Iranian Public Intellectuals; 8 An Intellectual Crisis in Iran; Conclusion: Modernity and Its Traditions; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.