Beyond Shariati : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian political thought
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Beyond Shariati : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian political thought
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index
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Description
Ali Shariati (1933-77) has been called by many the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'. An inspiration to many of the revolutionary generation, Shariati's combination of Islamic political thought and Left-leaning ideology continues to influence both in Iran and across the wider Muslim world. In this book, Siavash Saffari examines Shariati's long-standing legacy, and how new readings of his works by contemporary 'neo-Shariatis' have contributed to a deconstruction of the false binaries of Islam/modernity, Islam/West, and East/West. Saffari argues that through their critique of Eurocentric metanarratives on the one hand, and the essentialist conceptions of Islam on the other, Shariati and neo-Shariatis have carved out a new space in Islamic thought beyond the traps of Orientalism and Occidentalism. This unique perspective will hold great appeal to researchers of the politics and intellectual thought of post-revolutionary Iran and the greater Middle East.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: between cultural essentialism and hegemonic universalism
- 1. Post-revolutionary readings of a revolutionary Islamic discourse
- 2. Islamic thought in encounter with colonial modernity
- 3. A postcolonial discourse of public religion
- 4. The enlightenment subject and a religiously mediated subjectivity
- 5. Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the civilizational framework
- Conclusion: toward a postcolonial cosmopolitanism
- Bibliography.
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