ISBN:
0-231-11940-2
,
978-0-231-11940-5
,
0-231-11941-0 /Pbk.
,
978-0-231-11941-2 /Pbk.
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 190 Seiten
Series Statement:
The _CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies
Uniform Title:
Être moderne en Iran
Keywords:
Iran Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Soziokultureller Kontext
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Islam
;
Islam und Politik
;
Recht, islamisches
;
Frau und Islam
;
Öffentlichkeit
;
Individuum und Gesellschaft
;
Humaini, Ruhallah Musawi
Abstract:
What does it mean to be modern in Iran today? Can one properly speak of modernity in relation to what many consider to be the paradigmatic Islamic state? When its 1979 revolution seized the world's attention, the Islamic Republic of Iran became a subject of speculation and misdunderstandig, passion and polemic, making these questions difficult to answer - or even ask. Yet in the wake of September 11, the Middle Eastern political landscape seems to shift daily, making a nuanced study of Iran's political culture and the tremendous changes in that country both timely and imperative.Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Iran and an encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary Iranian politics and culture, anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah investigates modernity in the Islamic Republic of Iran by looking at the growth of individualism bureaucracy, commercial forces, and rationalization in postrevolution Iran. Avoiding a simplistic dualism between a backward and repressive regime on the one side and a civil society representing progress and freedom on the other, Adelkhah argues that public space ist being created through the existence of many religious, political, and economic activities. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Preface to the English edition -- Introduction: a political earthquake -- 1. When taxes bloom in Tehran -- 2. The man of integrity: a matter of style -- 3. The economics of beneficience: generosity and business orientation -- 4. Social beings, political beings: the story of an election -- 5. A new public space for Islam -- 6. Looking afrer Number One: a competitive society -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index
Note:
"First published as Être moderne en Iran by Kathala, Paris, 1998. English translation and updating, C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1999" (Rückseite des Titelblattes
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