Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran An Intellectual History
This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran’s contemporary political and intellectual history. It investigates the way Iranian Muslim intellectuals have discussed politics and democracy. As a history of Iranian Islamism and its transformation to pos
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Yadullah Shahibzadeh
Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran
Yadullah Shahibzadeh
Islamism and PostIslamism in Iran An Intellectual History
Yadullah Shahibzadeh Department of Cultural Studies and Orien University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
ISBN 978-1-137-58206-5 ISBN 978-1-137-57825-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57825-9
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PREFACE
More than three decades ago, Hayden White distinguished between political and interpretative authorities. Whereas interpretative authority is achieved through argument, political authority is imposed through the use of force. White argued that the interpretative authority of an interpreter reaches its limit the moment he or she appeals to force to resolve his or her interpretative disputes with other interpreters.1 The history of the contemporary Middle East is, to a certain extent, the history of the interpreters who knowingly or unknowingly have appealed to force to resolve the interpretative conflicts in the region. Convinced of the authority of Western governments to resolve interpretative conflicts by force in the Middle East, many interpreters stopped being interpreters. Instead, they have been mapping out different social forces’ proclivity to accept or resist Western governments’ solutions to the various situations in the region. In the mid-2000s, the USA and its allies speculated on the construction of an Iraqi nationalism to resist Iranian influence in the region, which led some researchers to explore how a new
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