How Islam Rules in Iran

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-46084-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 363 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

This study provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of Islam as a ruling framework in postrevolutionary Iran up to the present day. Beginning with the position and structure of Iran's clerical establishment under the Islamic Republic, Kamrava delves into the jurisprudential debates that have shaped the country's political institutions and state policies. Kamrava draws on extensive fieldwork to examine various religious narratives that inform the basis of contemporary Iranian politics, also revealing the political salience of common practices and beliefs such as religious guardianship and guidance, Islam as a source of social protection, the relationship between Islam and democracy, the sources of divine and popular legitimacy, and the theoretical justifications for religious authoritarianism. Providing access to many Persian-language sources for the first time, Kamrava shows how religious intellectual production in Iran has impacted the ongoing transformation of Iranian Shi'ism, and ultimately underwritten the fate of the Islamic Republic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kamrava, Mehran

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The Setting; 3. A Question of Jurisprudence; 4. Social Protection and Guidance; 5. Rethinking the Islamic Republic; 6. Theorizing Islamic Democracy; 7. Legitimate Authority; 8. Khameneism and the Absolute Velayat-e Faqih; 9. Whither the Islamic Republic?; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kamrava, Mehran
Mehran Kamrava is Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Qatar. He also directs the Iranian Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Kamrava is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including, most recently, Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2023); A Dynastic History of Iran: From the Qajars to the Pahlavis (Cambridge University Press, 2022); Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran's Islamic Republic (Oxford University Press, 2022); and A Concise History of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020).