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Getting to Modernity: Religious Reform in Iran
The Iranian Revolution cannot be viewed as the starting point for modern Islamic reform in Iran. It should instead be looked at as a stage of reform that exists within a much larger cycle of modernist, secular, and fundamentalist reform … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Iranian Revolution, Islam, modernity, Shabestari, Shariati, Soroush
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Iran or Persia?
Towards the beginning of the semester, I was tasked with developing an investigatory question concerning Iran that I would pursue throughout the course of the semester. Unfortunately, the only thing that I felt I reliably knew about Iran was that … Continue reading