Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory, Religion, Revolution, and the Role of the Intellectual (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 115)

Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory: Religion, Revolution and the Role of the Intellectual is a collection of essays engaged in a future-oriented remembrance of the life and praxis of one of Iran’s most influential revolutionary intellectuals: Ali Shariati. Ideology by Any Other Name : Social Sciences and the Humanities as Western Catechism / Carimo Mohomed -- Spokesmen of Intellectual Decolonization : Shariati in Dialogue with Alatas / Esmaeil Zeiny -- Ali Shariati's Critique of Durkheim's Sociology of Religion / Seyed Javad Miri -- Ali Shariati and Critical Theory : From Black Affirmation to Red Negation / Dustin J. Byrd -- Ali Shariati and Ethical Humanism : Conceiving a Perspective of Liberative Social Ethics / Teo Lee Ken -- The Liberties of a Transmitter : Frantz Fanon According to Shariati / Georg Leube -- Understanding Ali Shariati's Political Thought / Chandra Muzaffar -- The New Islamism : Remembrance and Liberation / Sophia Rose Arjana -- Ali Shariati on the Question of Palestine : Making a Sacred Symbol for Uprising against Injustice and Domination / Mahdi Ahouie -- Shariati on Islamic and Western Philosophy of Education / Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast -- Ali Shariati and Anti-Americanism in the Persian Gulf Region / Fatemeh Shayan -- We and Shariati / M. Kursad Atalar -- Musulman-e Marksisti : The Islamic Modernism of Ali Shariati in Religion vs. Religion / Bader Mousa Al-Saif In Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory: Religion, Revolution and the Role of the Intellectual, Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri bring together a collections of essays by a variety of scholars who explore the lasting influence of the Iranian sociologist and revolutionary, Ali Shariati. Thought to be the most important intellectual behind the Iranian Revolution of 1979, these essays engage in a future-oriented remembrance of Shariati's life and praxis, with the practical attempt to clarify, expand, and apply his liberational Islamic thought to modern conditions. Making use of Shariati's writings on Shi'a Islam and western philosophy, this text is especially important for those who want to understand the role that intellectuals, both religious and secular, can have in the liberation of mankind. Contributors are: Mahdi Ahouie, Bader Mousa al-Saif, Sophia Rose Arjana, M. Kürad Atalar, Dustin J. Byrd, Eric Goodfield, Teo Lee Ken, Georg Leube, Seyed Javad Miri, Carimo Mohomed, Chandra Muzaffar, Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast, Fatemeh Shayan, and Esmaeil Zeiny.