Book Details
Orange Code:33127
Paperback:242 pages
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1. Western narratives of modernity2. Reconciling with the West’s Other3. The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam4. Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari’ati5. German intellectuals and the culture of modernity6. The tragedy of the Iranian Left7. Modernities of our time
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In this thought-provoking book, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity and exposes the Eurocentric prejudices underlying its development. He provides a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through a detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals and argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular
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