عنوان

Superstition as ideology in Iranian politics

شابک

9781107005181 (hardback)

شماره

2-14904

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Superstition as ideology in Iranian politics

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad

نام نخستين پديدآور

/ Ali Rahnema.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cambridge University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2011.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xii, 320 p. ;

ابعاد

24 cm.

عنوان فروست

Cambridge Middle East studies

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-311) and index.

متن يادداشت

"A superstitious reading of the world based on religion may be harmless at a private level, yet employed as a political tool it can have more sinister implications. As this fascinating book by Ali Rahnema, a distinguished Iranian intellectual, relates, superstition and mystical beliefs have endured and influenced ideology and political strategy in Iran from the founding of the Safavid dynasty in the sixteenth century to the present day. The endurance of these beliefs has its roots in a particular brand of popular Shiism, which was compiled and systematized by the eminent cleric Mohammad Baqer Majlesi in the seventeenth century. Majlesi, who is considered by some to be the father of Iranian Shiism, encouraged believers to accept fantastical notions as part of their faith and to venerate their leaders as superhuman. As Rahnema demonstrates through a close reading of the Persian sources and with examples from contemporary Iranian politics, it is this supposed connectedness to the hidden world that has allowed leaders such as Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mahmud Ahmadinejad to present themselves and their entourage as representatives of the divine, and their rivals as the embodiment of evil"-

موضوع مستند نشده

Ideology - Iran - History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Islam and politics - Iran - History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Shiah - Iran - History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Political psychology, Case studies.

موضوع مستند نشده

Superstition - Religious aspects - Islam.

موضوع مستند نشده

Iran, Politics and government, Psychological aspects.

بدون عنوان

0

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Rahnama, Ali.

تاريخ عمليات

20111204135920.0

نوع ماده

BL

کد کاربرگه

251648

تكميل شده

Y