The 'war on terror' tends to circumscribe crucial developments in the Islamic world within a narrow definition of 'Islamic terrorism'. This partial and incomplete perspective fails to comprehend the links between today's scenario and the Iranian revolution of 1979 - a revolution fought in the name of God and spearheaded by religious scholars. It is vital to examine the relationship between religious and revolutionary ideologies and the revolutionary potentials of Islamic teachings. In a penetrating new study, Najibullha Lafraie examines how revolutionary ideologies function, and applies these insights to the Quran and its interpreters in the vanguard of the Iranian revolution. By unpacking these discourses, Lafraie develops and refines the concept of a 'Quranic' revolutionary ideology. "The Ideology of the Islamic Revolution" delineates the different ways in which the Quran was used to mobilise action in 1979, and in so doing provides a context for understanding today's Islamist movements.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
I Ideology, revolution, and revolutionary ideology
II The ideology of revolution in the Holy Quran
III Revolutionary ideology in the works of Imam Khomeini
IV Revolutionary ideology in the works of Ayatollah Taleqani
V Revolutionary ideology in the works of Ayatollah Mutahhari
VI Revolutionary ideology in the works of Engineer Bazargan
VII Revolutionary ideology in the works of Dr Shariati
VIII Revolutionary ideology in the works of Bani Sadr
IX Islamic revolutionary ideology: an overview
X The ideology of Islamic revolution, terrorism and the "clash of civilizations"
Conclusion
Index
