Religious Statecraft : : The Politics of Islam in Iran / / Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar.
Since the 1979 revolution, scholars and policy makers alike have tended to see Iranian political actors as religiously driven-dedicated to overturning the international order in line with a theologically prescribed outlook. This provocative book argues that such views have the link between religious...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Politics of Islam
- 1. The Factional Causes and Religious Consequences of Politics
- 2. A Shi'a Theory of the State
- 3. The "Islamic" Revolution
- 4. Institutionalizing Velayat-e Faqih
- 5. The Hostage Crisis: The Untold Account of the Communist Threat
- 6. Religion and Elite Competition in the Iran-Iraq War
- 7. The Metamorphosis of Islamism After the War
- 8. The Factional Battle Over Khomeini's Velayat-e Faqih
- 9. Media, Religion, and the Green Movement
- 10. Historical Revisionism and Regional Threats
- 11. The Domestic Sources of Nuclear Politics
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index