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5 - Mourning as Protest

Montazeri, Post-Islamism, and Revolutionary ʿAshura

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2020

Pouya Alimagham
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The ʿAshura protests of 2009 also warrant their own chapter because of the profound meaning with which history infused them. The chapter presents a case study of post-Islamism in the person of Ayatollah Montazeri, who was originally an architect of the Islamic system but had become one of its severest critics. After a period of trial and error, the goal of the post-Islamist trend had become to save Islam from the state by fusing it with plurality and rights instead of dogmatism and duties. Montazeri died in December 2009—six months after the initial uprising—by which time repression by the state had either radicalized protesters or suppressed more moderate voices. The seventh day of mourning for his death fell on ‘Ashura 2009, and the ensuing day of action fused the two events, drawing on both the Iranian Revolution and wider Islamic history to imbue the protests with particular meaning.

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Contesting the Iranian Revolution
The Green Uprisings
, pp. 196 - 255
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Mourning as Protest
  • Pouya Alimagham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Book: Contesting the Iranian Revolution
  • Online publication: 20 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567060.006
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  • Mourning as Protest
  • Pouya Alimagham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Book: Contesting the Iranian Revolution
  • Online publication: 20 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567060.006
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  • Mourning as Protest
  • Pouya Alimagham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Book: Contesting the Iranian Revolution
  • Online publication: 20 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567060.006
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