Seyed Javad Miri

Islamism and Post-Islamism (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections upon Allama Jafari's Political Thought

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Islamism and Post-Islamism analyzes political thought in Iran since 1979. Seyed Javad Miri engages with one of the seminal thinkers in contemporary Iranian politics, Allama Jafari, on key relevant concepts.

In this book, Miri discusses several important topics:
Redrawing the map of political thought in an islamist eraGovernmentality in the balance of gnosticismReligion, politics and other sagasChanges in Iranian social lifeThe principle of divine authority in modern Iran

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761863885
• Artikelnr.: 41763584

Autorenporträt

Seyed Javad Miri is an associate professor at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies and Sharif University in Tehran, Iran. His fields of research are sociology, history of religions, philosophy of science and social sciences, and psychoanalysis. He is also the editor of Islamic Perspective, which is aimed at creating debates in humanities and social sciences between thinkers of the East and West.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Chapter One: Redrawing the Map of Political Thought in an Islamist Era
Chapter Two: Governmentality in the Balance of Gnosticism
Introduction
On Management and Leadership
On Leadership and Constructive Gnosis
Fundamental Obligation of Government
Leadership and Society
Governing and Alienation
Management's Fundamental Obligation
The intelligible life and equal rights
Chapter Three: Religion, Politics and Other Sagas
Introduction
Politics: A Conceptual Makeover
Religion: Emancipative or Oppressive Factor?
Political Gnosticism or Mystical Politics
Power and its functions
Manifestations of Authority
Religion and its Janus-Face
Chapter Four: Social Life Redesigned
Introduction
Types of Politics
Political Islam
Eurocentrism and Politics in a critical balance
Absence of Politics in the Empire of Islam
Designing of Social Life
Intelligible Freedom
Chapter Five: Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority
Introduction
Politics and the Sunnite Interpretation
Sovereignty in Islam
Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index