Islamism and Post-Islamism

Reflections upon Allama Jafari's Political Thought

By (author) Seyed Javad Miri

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Publication date:

17 September 2014

Length of book:

108 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761863885

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 Iran

Foreword
Preface
Chapter One: Redrawing the Map of Political Thought in an Islamist Era

Chapter Two: Governmentality in the Balance of Gnosticism
Introduction
On Management and Leadership
On Leadership and Constructive Gnosis
Fundamental Obligation of Government
Leadership and Society
Governing and Alienation
Management’s Fundamental Obligation
The intelligible life and equal rights

Chapter Three: Religion, Politics and Other Sagas
Introduction
Politics: A Conceptual Makeover
Religion: Emancipative or Oppressive Factor?
Political Gnosticism or Mystical Politics
Power and its functions
Manifestations of Authority
Religion and its Janus-Face

Chapter Four: Social Life Redesigned
Introduction
Types of Politics
Political Islam
Eurocentrism and Politics in a critical balance
Absence of Politics in the Empire of Islam
Designing of Social Life
Intelligible Freedom

Chapter Five: Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority
Introduction
Politics and the Sunnite Interpretation
Sovereignty in Islam
Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority

Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

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.