TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jahanbakhsh,Forough
TI  - Islam, Democracy and Religious Modernism in Iran (1953-2000): From Bāzargān to Soroush 
T2  - Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
SN  - 9789047400714
AV  - BP173.6 
U1  - 320.955/09/045 23
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Iran
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This volume focuses primarily on the question of the compatibility of Islam and democracy. It highlights the contribution of seven prominent pre- and post-revolutionary Iranian religious thinkers on the subject. Situating the discussion in its specific religious context, the book critically examines those elements that are usually referred to as democratic norms in Islamic tradition. It also provides, for the first time, an exposition of the emergence of religious intellectualism in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on the ideas of its leading figure, Abdolkarim Soroush. His discussion of religious democratic government presents a paradigm shift in the Muslim modernists' discourse on the issue. The book also delineates the intellectual component of the current reformist movement in Iran and sheds light on the challenges that the pro-democracy movement has to overcome
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047400714
ER  -