Reza Alijani ( fa, رضا علیجانی) is an Iranian journalist, writer and
nationalist-religious activist.
Alijani has been described as "
Neo-Shariatist
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Neo-Shariatism
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" and a leading
post-Islamist
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and applicability of which has led to an intellectual debate. Asef Bayat and Olivier Roy are among the main architects of the idea.
The term has been used by Bayat to refer to ...
intellectual
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figure.
Alijani has spent years in jail since 1980s.
has designated him a
prisoner of conscience.
He has been the editor of ''
Iran-e-Farda'' before it was banned in 2000.
References
Living people
1962 births
Iranian journalists
Iranian religious-nationalists
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Iran
Iranian expatriates in France
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