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  • Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment

    Philosophies of Hope and Despair

    by Ali Mirsepassi ...
    Ali Mirsepassi's book presents a powerful challenge to the dominant media and scholarly construction of radical Islamist politics, and their anti-Western ideology, as a purely Islamic phenomenon derived from insular, traditional and monolithic religious 'foundations'. It argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Discovery of Iran

    Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan

    by Ali Mirsepassi ...
    The Discovery of Iran examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, Donya. In his quest to imagine a future for Iran open to the scientific riches of the modern world and the historical diversity of its own people, Arani combined Marxist materialism and a cosmopolitan ethics of progress. He sought to ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Democracy in Modern Iran

    Islam, Culture, and Political Change

    by Ali Mirsepassi ...
    New perspectives on Iran's relationship to democracyCan Islamic societies embrace democracy? In Democracy in Modern Iran, Ali Mirsepassi maintains that it is possible, demonstrating that Islam is not inherently hostile to the idea of democracy. Rather, he provides new perspective on how such a political and social transformation could take place, arguing that the key to understanding the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought

    The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid

    by Ali Mirsepassi ...
    Series Book 1 - The Global Middle East
    During the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9, the influence of public intellectuals was widespread. Many espoused a vision of Iran freed from the influences of 'Westtoxification', inspired by Heideggerian concepts of anti-Western nativism. By following the intellectual journey of the Iranian philosopher Ahmad Fardid, Ali Mirsepassi offers in this book an account of the rise of political Islam in modern ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Iran's Troubled Modernity

    Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy

    by Ali Mirsepassi ...
    Series Book 5 - The Global Middle East
    Ahmad Fardid (1910–94), the 'anti-Western' philosopher known to many as the Iranian Heidegger, became the self-proclaimed philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, famously coining the term 'Westoxication'. Using new materials about Fardid's intellectual biography and interviews with thirteen individuals, Ali Mirsepassi pieces together the striking story of Fardid's life and ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism

    At Home and in the World

    by Ali Mirsepassi, Tadd Graham Fernée ...
    This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by Islamic traditions and institutions. Interrogating the work of contemporary theorists of Islamic modernity such as Mohammed Arkoun, Abdul an-Na'im, Fatima Mernissi, Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood and Aziz Al-Azmeh, this book explores the debate on Islam, democracy and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Intellectual Thought of Al-Ghazālī

    by Ali Mirsepassi, Tadd Graham Fernée ...
    Series series The Global Middle East
    Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazālī (1058–1111) was one of the most influential philosophers of the classical Islamic period, with his intellectual innovations spanning the fields of theology, logic, and law. Despite this, contemporary assessments of Ghazālī often present him as hostile to rationality, and a guardian of dogma and orthodoxy. This study provides an innovative reassessment of Ghazālī's ... Read more

    $110.99 CAD

  • Iran's Quiet Revolution

    The Downfall of the Pahlavi State

    by Ali Mirsepassi ...
    Series Book 9 - The Global Middle East
    Offering a new perspective on Iran's politics and culture in the 1960s and 1970s, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the prevailing view of pre-Revolution Iran, documenting how the cultural elites of the Pahlavi State promoted a series of striking 'Gharbzadegi' or 'Westoxification' discourses. Intended as ideological alternatives to modern and Western-inspired cultural attitudes, these influenced Persian ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Global 1979

    Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution

    Edited by Arang Keshavarzian, Ali Mirsepassi ...
    Series Book 18 - The Global Middle East
    The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global contexts. Moving deftly from the personal to the global and from the provincial to the national, it draws attention to the multiplicity of spaces of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History

    by Ramin Jahanbegloo, Ali M. Ansari, Touraj Atbaki, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Homa Katouzian, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Mojtaba Mahdavi, Afshin Matin-Asghari, Farzaneh Milani, Haideh Moghissi0, Mohsen Mottaghi1, Saeed Paivandi2, Nasrin Rahimieh3, Peyman Vahabzadeh4, Ali Mirsepassi5, Farzin Vahdat6 ...
    In Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History, Jahanbegloo and contributors examine the role of Iranian intellectuals in the history of Iranian modernity. They trace the contributions of intellectuals in the construction of national identity and the Iranian democratic debate, analyzing how intellectuals balanced indebtedness to the West with the issue of national ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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