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Intellectual discourse and the politics of modernization negotiating modernity in Iran / by Mirsepassi, Ali

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A guerrilla odyssey modernization, secularism, democracy, and the Fadai period of national liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 / by Vahabzadeh, Peyman

Table of Contents: “…Iran in the 1960s : repressive development -- Organization of the Iranian People's Fadai Guerrillas (1971-1979) -- Bizhan Jazani : en route to a democratic theory of the liberation front -- Massoud Ahmadzadeh : theorizing armed struggle -- Three failed interlocutions : diverging propensities -- Mostafa Sho'aiyan : haunting return of plurivocal origination -- The Fadai movement -- Technologies of resistance -- Constitutive paradox : liberation, secularism, and the possibility of democratic action -- Appendix A : Fadai casualties, 1970-1979 -- Appendix B : The splits of Fadaiyan.…”
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Democracy in modern Iran Islam, culture, and political change / by Mirsepassi, Ali

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Political Islam, Iran, and the enlightenment philosophies of hope and despair / by Mirsepassi, Ali

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The martyrs of Karbala Shi'i symbols and rituals in modern Iran / by Aghaie, Kamran Scot

Table of Contents: “…A brief historical background of Shi'ism and Moharram -- The Qajar elites and religious patronage (1796-1925) -- Qajar society and religious culture : Tehran as a case study -- The Pahlavi regime and the emergence of secular modernism (1925-1979) -- Religious rituals, society and politics during the Pahlavi period -- Hoseyn "the prince of martyrs" -- Fatemeh, Zeynab, and emerging discourses on gender -- The Islamic republic.…”
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