Overview
In this thought-provoking book, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity and exposes the Eurocentric prejudices underlying its development. He provides a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through a detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals and argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular.
- | Author: Ali Mirsepassi
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 06, 2000
- | Number of Pages: 244 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521650003
- | ISBN-13: 9780521650007
