Beyond Shariati

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-16416-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Ali Shariati (1933–77) has been called by many the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'. An inspiration to many of the revolutionary generation, Shariati's combination of Islamic political thought and left-leaning ideology continues to influence both in Iran and across the wider Muslim world. In this book, Siavash Saffari examines Shariati's long-standing legacy, and how new readings of his works by contemporary 'neo-Shariatis' have contributed to a deconstruction of the false binaries of Islam and modernity, modernism and traditionalism. Saffari examines how, through their critique of Eurocentric metanarratives on the one hand and the essentialist conceptions of Islam on the other, Shariati and neo-Shariatis have carved out a new space in Islamic thought beyond the traps of Orientalism and Occidentalism. This unique perspective will hold great appeal to researchers of the politics and intellectual thought of post-revolutionary Iran and the greater Middle East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saffari, Siavash

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: between cultural essentialism and hegemonic universalism; 1. Post-revolutionary readings of a revolutionary Islamic discourse; 2. Islamic thought in encounter with colonial modernity; 3. A postcolonial discourse of public religion; 4. The enlightenment subject and a religiously mediated subjectivity; 5. Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the civilizational framework; Conclusion: toward a postcolonial cosmopolitanism; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Saffari, Siavash
Siavash Saffari is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alberta, where he taught courses in comparative politics and political theory.