Democracy in modern Iran :Islam, culture, and political change /Ali Mirsepassi
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New York :
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New York University Press,
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c2010.
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xv, 219 p. ;24 cm.
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.
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Introduction: democracy and culture -- The origins of secularism in Europe -- Modern visions of secularism -- A critical understanding of modernity -- Intellectuals and democracy -- Religious intellectuals -- Alireza Alavi-Tabar and political change -- The predicaments of Iranian public intellectuals -- An intellectual crisis in Iran -- Conclusion: modernity and its traditions.