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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tabaar, Mohammad (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Series:Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
Subjects:
Since 1900
Islam and politics > Iran > History > 20th century.
Islam and politics > Iran > History > 21st century.
Shīʻah > Iran.
Chiisme > Iran.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Middle Eastern.
Islam and politics
Politics and government
Shīʻah
Iran > Politics and government > 1979-1997.
Iran > Politics and government > 1997-
Iran > Politique et gouvernement > 1979-1997.
Iran > Politique et gouvernement > 1997-
Iran
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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