TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miri,Seyed Javad
TI  - Islamism and Post-Islamism: Reflections upon Allama Jafari's Political Thought
SN  - 9780761863885
AV  - JA84.I7 -- M57 2014eb 
U1  - 320.557 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - University Press of America, Incorporated
KW  - Political science -- Iran
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Redrawing the Map of Political Thought in an Islamist Era -- 2 Governmentality in the Balance of Gnosticism -- Introduction -- On Management and Leadership -- On Leadership and Constructive Gnosis -- Fundamental Obligation of Government -- Leadership and Society -- Governing and Alienation -- Management's Fundamental Obligation -- The Intelligible Life and Equal Rights -- 3 Religion, Politics, and Other Sagas -- Introduction -- Politics: A Conceptual Makeover -- Religion: Emancipative or Oppressive Factor? -- Political Gnosticism or Mystical Politics -- Power and Its Functions -- Manifestations of Authority -- Religion and Its Janus-Face -- 4 Social Life Redesigned -- Introduction -- Types of Politics -- Political Islam -- Eurocentrism and Politics in a Critical Balance -- Absence of Politics in the Empire of Islam -- Designing of Social Life -- Intelligible Freedom -- 5 Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority -- Introduction -- Politics and the Sunnite Interpretation -- Sovereignty in Islam -- Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority -- Epilogue -- Bibliography
N2  - Islamism and Post-Islamism analyzes political thought in Iran since 1979. Seyed Javad Miri engages with one of the seminal thinkers in contemporary Iranian politics, Allama Jafari, on key relevant concepts
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1798291
ER  -