Political Conservatism and Religious Reformation in Iran (1905-1979): Reconsidering the Monarchic Legacy

Political Conservatism and Religious Reformation in Iran (1905-1979): Reconsidering the Monarchic Legacy
ISBN-10
3658366702
ISBN-13
9783658366704
Category
Religion
Pages
394
Language
English
Published
2022
Publisher
Springer Nature
Author
Amir Yahya Ayatollahi

Description

This book is a theoretical inquiry on the relation of the body politic with the religious movements in the time between the Constitutional Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran; it illustrates speculative and historical analyses on the relationship of state, religion, and socio-political status in the late Qajar dynasty (1905-1925) and the whole Pahlavi monarchy. Particularly, it examines the applicability of liberal conservatism to the era of the last Shah of Iran. The thesis defines the term political conservatism in accord with Edmund Burke's philosophy. It deals next with the definition of religious reformation, the peculiar characteristics of Islam, the Shi'ite political theology, and the contradictory usages of Islamic reformation in the literature. The text gives an overview of the two antagonist sides of nationalism. It provides also an analysis of the Islamic Republic as a new political phenomenon in Iranian history and the transformation of all concepts after 1979. Ayatollahi aims to assess the Iranian conservatism, the possibility of conciliation between politics and religion before the collapse of the Pahlavi, and the conditions of possibility for any restoration of the monarchy. About the author Amir Yahya Ayatollahi received his Ph. D. from the University of Vechta, Germany. His fields of interest are political philosophy, modern Middle East, Iranian studies, and Shi'ism.

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