Modern Capitalism and Islamic Ideology in Iran [Paperback]

Beginning with an historical perspective, the text moves to examine dimensions of Islamic Revolution and ideology, oil, economic crisis and Islamic banking, and post-war political and infrastructural reconstruction in Iran.Part 1 An historical perspective: continuity and change - the structure power in Iran, Cyrus Vakili-Zad. Part 2 Dimensions of Islamic Revolution and ideology: Taliqani's Qur'anic exegesis - elements of a revolutionary discourse, Hamid Dabashi; Iranian revolution revisited, Janice M.Moore; from homo economicus to homo islamicus - the universality of economic science reconsidered, Hamid Hosseini. Part 3 Oil, economic crisis, and Islamic banking: global oil and the oil policies of the Islamic Republic, Cyrus Bina; recent development in the political economy of Iran - The Triangle Crisis , Behzad Yaghmaian; an analytical model of Islamic banking firm, Hamid Zangeneh and Ahmad Salam. Part 4 Post-War political and infrastructural reconstruction: the challenge of political reconstruction in Iran, Nader Entessar; urban land policies in post-revolutionary Iran, Ali A.Kiafar; economic cost of the war and the reconstruction in Iran, Hooshang Amirahmadi.