Siavash SaffariCambridge University PressEdition: Reprint, 5/30/2019EAN 9781316615751, ISBN10: 1316615758Paperback, 219 pages, 23 x 15.3 x 1.8 cmLanguage: EnglishAli Shariati (1933–77) has been called by many the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'. An inspiration to many of the revolutionary generation, Shariati's combination of Islamic political thought and Left-leaning ideology continues to influence both in Iran and across the wider Muslim world. In this book, Siavash Saffari examines Shariati's long-standing legacy, and how new readings of his works by contemporary 'neo-Shariatis' have contributed to a deconstruction of the false binaries of Islam/modernity, Islam/West, and East/West. Saffari argues that through their critique of Eurocentric metanarratives on the one hand, and the essentialist conceptions of Islam on the other, Shariati and neo-Shariatis have carved out a new space in Islamic thought beyond the traps of Orientalism and Occidentalism. This unique perspective will hold great appeal to researchers of the politics and intellectual thought of post-revolutionary Iran and the greater Middle East.Introductionbetween cultural essentialism and hegemonic universalism1. Post-revolutionary readings of a revolutionary Islamic discourse2. Islamic thought in encounter with colonial modernity3. A postcolonial discourse of public religion4. The enlightenment subject and a religiously mediated subjectivity5. Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the civilizational frameworkConclusiontoward a postcolonial cosmopolitanismBibliography.
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