scholarly journals Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan

2019 ◽  
pp. 259-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ruth Gould ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Iranian Politics

Iran’s Islamic Revolution

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Sadeghi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Iranian Politics

The Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran was decisive in reshaping and reframing both Iranian politics and the Middle East, as we know it. This chapter investigates the historical framing of the Islamic revolution as a result of the politicization of the religious discourse in Iran from the early 1940s through the late 1970s and the steady emergence of the idea of an Islamic government as an alternative to the oppressive structure of Western modernity. The Islamic revolution marked the re-enchantment and remystification of politics in an allegedly disenchanted world. The chapter reveals two versions of revolutionary Islam, the clerical and the messianic, and their role in the framing of revolutionary politics. Whereas in clerical Islam the modern state was seen not as substantially corrupt but as an indispensable instrument for the establishment of the Islamic government, in messianic Islam the contemplation and reconstruction of history aimed at building a new past, hence a quite different future.

Factionalism and Iranian Politics: The Post-Khomeini Experience

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 27-49
Author(s):  
Sussan Siavoshi
Keyword(s):  
Iranian Politics ◽  
The Government ◽  
Fourth Session ◽  
Political Scene

The elections to the fourth session of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) were generally considered as the beginning of the end of factional politics in Iran. The typical journalistic analysis of Iranian politics, emphasizing the existence of two “moderate” and “radical” factions on the Iranian political scene, concluded that the “moderate” forces, led by President Hashemi Rafsanjani, had inflicted a decisive blow on the “radical” faction and neutralized the Majlis (which had been controlled by the radicals in its third session) as an impediment to the president's plan for reconstruction of the economy. Soon after the convening of the Fourth Majlis, however, the legislature challenged the authority of the Rafsanjani government either by initiating legislative bills to limit the authority of the president or by shelving the bills introduced by the government.

Modern Iranian Politics

2009 ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
Alethia H. Cook ◽  
Jalil Roshandel
Keyword(s):  
Iranian Politics

Cultural Foundations of Iranian Politics.

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 634
Author(s):  
Aqueil Ahmad ◽  
M. Reza Behnam
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Foundations ◽  
Iranian Politics

The Defence of National Identity as a Revolutionary Concept: Gharbzadigī, Islamic Modernisation, and Anticolonialism

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-115
Author(s):  
Alessia Tortolini
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Iranian Politics

Abstract The framework of Iranian national identity has been the cornerstone of the discourse of different social groups that aimed to establish their hegemony over the ‘imagined community’ of Iranians. The difficulty in determining the territorial delimitation of identity, as well as the process of creation-assimilation of a unitarian paradigm of identity characterised, and still characterises, Iranian politics. Therefore, the interdependence between domestic and foreign affairs and national identity can be explained under the lens of the struggle of hegemony of dominant powers and, specifically, through the theoretical framework of specific traditional or organic social groups that developed their political discourse around the different shades of Iranian ‘nationalism’.

Models of Iranian Politics, the Road to the Islamic Revolution, and the Challenge of Civil Society

1995 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhad Kazemi
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
World War ◽  
The Road ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Iranian Politics

This essay reviews six recent books on modern Iranian politics. It suggests that Iranian politics can be analyzed from the perspective of four basic traditions and models: monarchical, liberal nationalist, religious, and leftist. Each model abstracts the essential elements of the political system and demonstrates the dominance of a certain perspective. The first three of these models have been implemented in post—World War II Iran, and even the left has had an impact. The essay concludes by stating that current Iranian domestic politics can be better understood by paying attention to five enduring features: historical continuity of the nation-state, steady increase in state power, persistence of patrimonialism, intense interaction between domestic and foreign policies particularly as it relates to control over oil, and the vitality of civil society even under the Islamic Republic.

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