The Flourishing of Islamic Reformism in Iran

Download or read book The Flourishing of Islamic Reformism in Iran written by Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1940s and 1950s, Islamic reformism flourished in Iran. This book examines how Iranian Islamic groups came to rethink traditional accounts of religion and nurture a politicized version of Islam. The author shows how similar social and political circumstances, but different family and educational backgrounds gave rise to socialist, democratic/scientific and fundamentalist/militant reinterpretations of Islam. What was common among these groups was a tendency towards politicizing the religion. A significant contribution to discussions of contemporary political thought in Iran, this book will be of interest to researchers and academics of Islamic political though and Iranian politics and history.