The Flourishing of Islamic Reformism in Iran: Political Islamic Groups in Iran (1941-61) (Routledgecurzon Studies in Political Islam)

"During the 1940s and 1950s, Islamic reformism flourished in Iran. This book examines how Iranian Islamic groups came to rethink traditional accounts of religion and nurture a politicized version of Islam." "The author shows how similar social and political circumstances, but different family and educational backgrounds gave rise to socialist, democratic/scientific and fundamentalist/militant reinterpretations of Islam. What was common among these groups, however, was a tendency towards politicizing the religion." "A significant contribution to discussions of contemporary political thought in Iran, this book will be of interest to researchers and academics of Islamic political thought and Iranian politics and history."--Jacket The socialist theists : history Reforming Islamic thought Reconciling Islam and socialism The methodology of reforming Islamic thought The historical and intellectual context of the formation of the socialist theists' views The Iran freedom movement : history A new approach to Islam A worldly Islam The methodology of working out the new approach Formative factors in the society of the devotees of Islam : history A militant approach to Islam Social and political factors influencing fada'iyan's thought. The unabated factionalism within the Islamic Republic of Iran in the past decade has shown that the Islamic Revolution has two different faces: a fundamentalist face and a modernist one.