ISBN:
9780231183666
,
9780231545068
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 378 Seiten
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Henne, Peter S. [Rezension von: Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi, Religious statecraft] 2020
Series Statement:
Columbia studies in Middle East politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi Religious statecraft
DDC:
322/.10955
Keywords:
Islam and politics History 20th century
;
Islam and politics History 21st century
;
Shīʻah
;
Iran Politics and government 1979-1997
;
Iran Politics and government 1997-
;
Iran
;
Islam
;
Politische Führung
;
Geschichte 1979-2017
Abstract:
In a revisionist reading of Iranian politics since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Mohammad Tabaar demonstrates that the causal link between religious ideology and political order as it has been perceived is perilously misguided. Instead of viewing ideology as a determinant of an actor's political objectives and interests, he examines the religious consequences of politics. The conflict and violence that has been interpreted as an outcome of an ideology should rather be examined as causes of that particular ideology. Tabaar rejects the claim that Shi'a theology independently led to the Islamic Revolution in Iran and shapes its consequences. In actuality, a Shi'a ideology was specifically constructed to engender and preserve the revolution. That is not to say that religion does not matter. Religious ideas, ideals, and ideologies do play critical roles in generating mass mobilization and elite cohesion. It is precisely because political actors are aware of this function that they invest so much political capital in developing and deploying religious ideologies. Tabaar traces half a century of doctrinal changes against the background of Iranian domestic and international politics, and he argues that Islamic ideology is not only used but more importantly is constructed and strategically institutionalized by elites to deal with changing opportunities and threat perceptions
Abstract:
Introduction : the politics of Islam -- Factional causes and religious consequences of politics -- A shi'a theory of the state -- The "Islamic" revolution -- Institutionalizing velayat-e faqih -- The hostage crisis : the untold account of the Communist threat -- Religion and elite competition in the Iran-Iraq war -- The metamorphosis of Islamism after the war -- The factional battle over Khomeini's velayat-e faqih -- Media, religion, and the green movement -- Historical revisionism and regional threats -- The domestic sources of nuclear politics
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