Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization: negotiating modernity in iran
Auteur :
Mirsepassi, Ali
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521659970
Date de publication :
12 oct. 2000
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,5 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
415 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Ali Mirsepassi explores Eurocentric assumptions about modernity and Islamic Fundamentalism. He argues the Iranian Revolution was not a clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture and assesses the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East.