''Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought'' is a 2017 book by
Siavash Saffari in which the author examines
Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati Mazinani (, 23November 193318June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century. He has be ...
's intellectual legacy. The book which is based on Saffari's doctoral dissertation at the
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta, ) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, t ...
, was awarded the
American Political Science Association
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political scientists in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, it publishes four ...
’s First Book Award in 2018.
Reception
The book has been reviewed by
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina is an Iranian professor and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Biography
He has been a professor since 1975. He annu ...
,
Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi (; born 1951) is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City.
He is the author of over twenty books. Among them are ''Theology of Discontent'', several books ...
,
Fred Dallmayr, Parmida Esmaeilpour, Arash Davari, Catherine Sameh, Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi, Adis Duderija and Mojtaba Mahdavi.
See also
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Ali Shariati
Ali Shariati Mazinani (, 23November 193318June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century. He has be ...
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Post-Islamism
Post-Islamism is a neologism in political science, the definition and applicability of which is disputed. Asef Bayat and Olivier Roy are among the main architects of the idea.
The term has been used by Bayat to refer to "a tendency" towards ...
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Islamic socialism
Islamic socialism is a political philosophy that incorporates elements of Islam into a system of socialism. As a term, it was coined by various left-wing Muslim leaders to describe a more spiritual form of socialism. Islamic socialists believe ...
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Criticism of Islamism
The ideas and practices of the leaders, preachers, and movements of the Islamic revival movement known as Islamism (also referred to as Political Islam) have been criticized by non-Muslims and Muslims (often Islamic modernists and liberals).
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References
External links
Beyond Shariati
2017 non-fiction books
English-language non-fiction books
Books about politics of Iran
Works about Ali Shariati
Cambridge University Press books
Theses
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