1st Edition

Revolutionary Iran Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process

By Masoud Kamali Copyright 1998
338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1998, Revolutionary Iran investigates two major political transformations in the modern history of Iran: the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-09 and the Islamic Revolution 1976-79 and their relation to the modernization of Iran in this century. It addresses a core question: Why did the clergy not take political power in the Constitutional Revolution when Iran was a... Read more

Part 1. Civil Society in Iran, Foreign Impact, and the Constitutional Revolution. 1. The Construction of the Muslim Society of Iran. 2. Civil Society in Iran. 3. Iran on the Eve of the Constitutional Revolution. 4. The Constitutional Revolution. 5. The Constitutionalism of the Ulama. Part 2. The New Monarchical Regime, Modernization, and the Islamic Revolution. 6. Iran Under the Pahlavis. 7. Modernization and the Ulama. 8. Iran on the Eve of the Islamic Revolution. 9. The Islamic Revolution. Part 3. Discussion and Conclusions. 10. The Two Revolutions: Comparative Reflections. 11. Conceptual Reflections: Islamic Civil Society, Modernization, Revolution.

Biography

Masoud Kamali