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Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz.

Islam and dissent in postrevolutionary Iran : Abdolkarim Soroush, religious politics and democratic reform / Islam & dissent in postrevolutionary Iran Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi. - New York : New York : 2008. - 311 p. - International library of Iranian studies ; 16 .

Introduction : ideological certainties, past and present -- The Islamic roots of modernity and the modern roots of Islamism -- Legitimizing the postrevolutionary regime : the genesis of the new constitution -- Abdolkarim Soroush : the intellectual voice of the Islamic Republic -- From the reign of terror to let a thousand flowers bloom -- From liberation theology to state ideology : Shari'ati and the emergence of new religious intellectuals -- The silence of the Shari'ah : Abdolkarim Soroush and the theological foundations of political reform -- Islam, democracy, and religious pluralism -- Conclusion : social change and the symbolic universe of religion. HKBU library

YT2025 M08

ISBN: 1845118804 9781845118808 1845118790 9781845118792

Subjects--Personal Names:
Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Islam and politics--Iran.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.
Iran--Politics and government--1997-
Iran--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1979

LC Class. No.: DS318 / G411 I 2008