Islamism and Post-Islamism analyzes political thought in Iran since 1979. Seyed Javad Miri engages with one of the seminal thinkers in contemporary Iranian politics, Allama Jafari, on key relevant concepts.
In this book, Miri discusses several important topics:
Redrawing the map of political thought in an islamist eraGovernmentality in the balance of gnosticismReligion, politics and other sagasChanges in Iranian social lifeThe principle of divine authority in modern Iran
Autorentext
By Seyed Javad Miri
Inhalt
Foreword
Preface
Chapter One: Redrawing the Map of Political Thought in an Islamist Era
Chapter Two: Governmentality in the Balance of Gnosticism
Introduction
On Management and Leadership
On Leadership and Constructive Gnosis
Fundamental Obligation of Government
Leadership and Society
Governing and Alienation
Management's Fundamental Obligation
The intelligible life and equal rights
Chapter Three: Religion, Politics and Other Sagas
Introduction
Politics: A Conceptual Makeover
Religion: Emancipative or Oppressive Factor?
Political Gnosticism or Mystical Politics
Power and its functions
Manifestations of Authority
Religion and its Janus-Face
Chapter Four: Social Life Redesigned
Introduction
Types of Politics
Political Islam
Eurocentrism and Politics in a critical balance
Absence of Politics in the Empire of Islam
Designing of Social Life
Intelligible Freedom
Chapter Five: Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority
Introduction
Politics and the Sunnite Interpretation
Sovereignty in Islam
Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index