Iran's Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi

This will be followed by a discussion of the process of constitution making, leading to a close examination of the constitution itself and the debates to which its various parts gave rise. sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. shelved 697 times Showing 18 distinct works.

In this article we will first provide a historical context for the emergence of the idea of an Islamic state and its central principle, the dominion of the Shiʿi jurisprudent or velāyat-e faqih (from Arabic wilāyat al-faqih). Books by Ali Mirsepassi Ali Mirsepassi Average rating 3.67 Iran was thus the first state in modern times in which sections of the ulema took direct control of the state.

institutional expression in a state that combines theocratic and republican organs. Read Democracy in Modern Iran Islam, Culture, and Political Change by Ali Mirsepassi available from Rakuten Kobo. Books by Ali Mirsepassi The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan Starting at 65. The Islamic Republic that came into being that year combines, as the name implies, Islamic and republican principles, which find. The Historical and Structural Development of Labor Politics in Modern Iran (1985)Īli Mirsepassi (born 1950) is an Iranian-American sociologist and political scientist and Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University.Abstract Contemporary Iran plays a special role in the history of Islamic constitutionalism, as the constitution of 1979 was the first attempt since the debates over Pakistan’s Islamic Republic to derive the basic law of a modern state from Islamic principles. Fardid is the author of the term occidentosis, with which he names the alienation of Iranians from. Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change By Ali Mirsepassi New York University Press 2010 224 pages 42. American University (MA, PhD), University of Tehran (BA) Ahmad Fardid is the first commentator of Heidegger in Iran. Irans Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi, 2018, Cambridge University Press edition, in English Irans Troubled Modernity (2018 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline.

Iran's Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi