Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: modernity and “culture”
- 1 Western narratives of modernity
- 2 Reconciling with the West's Other
- 3 The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam
- 4 Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati
- 5 German intellectuals and the culture of modernity
- 6 The tragedy of the Iranian Left
- 7 Modernities of our time
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: modernity and “culture”
- 1 Western narratives of modernity
- 2 Reconciling with the West's Other
- 3 The crisis of secularism and the rise of political Islam
- 4 Islam as a modernizing ideology: Al-e Ahmad and Shari'ati
- 5 German intellectuals and the culture of modernity
- 6 The tragedy of the Iranian Left
- 7 Modernities of our time
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of ModernizationNegotiating Modernity in Iran, pp. 194 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000