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Religious statecraft : the politics of Islam in Iran /

In a revisionist reading of Iranian politics since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Mohammad Tabaar demonstrates that the causal link between religious ideology and political order as it has been perceived is perilously misguided. Instead of viewing ideology as a determinant of an actor's political...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tabaar, Mohammad (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Colección:Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the politics of Islam
  • Factional causes and religious consequences of politics
  • A shi'a theory of the state
  • The "Islamic" revolution
  • Institutionalizing velayat-e faqih
  • The hostage crisis : the untold account of the Communist threat
  • Religion and elite competition in the Iran-Iraq war
  • The metamorphosis of Islamism after the war
  • The factional battle over Khomeini's velayat-e faqih
  • Media, religion, and the green movement
  • Historical revisionism and regional threats
  • The domestic sources of nuclear politics.