Iran's Quiet Revolution
Ali Mirsepassi · 2019
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"In remembering the 1978 Iranian Revolution, there is a scholarly convention of memory capturing our imagination. A given consensus seems to be evolving that, at the cultural and intellectual levels, the Revolution represented a sharp cultural war opposing the "modernist" Pahlavi State to a fiercely traditional "religious" opposition. Following this unthought template, the Revolution is recalled as a major confrontation between modernity and tradition. This book ventures a different and more nuanced analysis, arguing for a convergence of anti-modern, spiritual, and nativist discourse in both the Pahlavi state and the Islamist revolutionary movement"--
Book details
- Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 262
- ISBN
- 9781108725323
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