Islamism and Post-Islamism Reflections upon Allama Jafari's Political Thought [Hardcover]

Muslims beginning especially with the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini have demanded a certain religious visibility, as Seyed Javad Miri has demonstrated, in their societies. However, even if Islamism is the future, it must be infused, as Miri points out, with the spirit of deliberative democracy, which philosophically separates the sources of legitimism from the particular actions of any given political actor.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.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.In this book, Miri discusses several important topics:?Redrawing the map of political thought in an islamist era?Governmentality in the balance of gnosticism?Religion, politics and other sagas?Changes in Iranian social life?The principle of divine authority in modern IranForewordPrefaceChapter One: Redrawing the Map of Political Thought in an Islamist EraChapter Two: Governmentality in the Balance of GnosticismIntroductionOn Management and LeadershipOn Leadership and Constructive GnosisFundamental Obligation of GovernmentLeadership and SocietyGoverning and AlienationManagements Fundamental ObligationThe intelligible life and equal rightsChapter Three: Religion, Politics and Other SagasIntroductionPolitics: A Conceptual MakeoverReligion: Emancipative or Oppressive Factor?Political Gnosticism or Mystical PoliticsPower and its functionsManifestations of AuthorityReligion and its Janus-FaceChapter Four: Social Life RedesignedIntroductionTypes of PoliticsPolitical IslamEurocentrism and Politics in a critical balanceAbsence of Politics in the Empire of IslamDesigning of Social LifeIntelligible FreedomChapter Five: RevisitlSU