Sadeghi Givi, Fatemeh;
(2020)
Iran’s Islamic Revolution: The Return of the Hunchbacked Dwarf.
In: Salvatore, Armando and Hanafi, Sari and Obuse, Kieko, (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East.
(C22-444).
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
The Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran was decisive in reshaping and reframing both Iranian politics and the Middle East as we know it. This chapter investigates the historical framing of the Islamic revolution as a result of the politicization of the religious discourse in Iran from the early 1940s through the late 1970s and the steady emergence of the idea of an Islamic government as an alternative to the oppressive structure of Western modernity. The Islamic revolution marked the re-enchantment and re-mystification of politics in an allegedly disenchanted world. The chapter reveals two versions of revolutionary Islam, the clerical and the messianic, and their role in the framing of revolutionary politics. Whereas in clerical Islam the modern state was seen not as substantially corrupt but as an indispensable instrument for the establishment of the Islamic government, in messianic Islam the contemplation and reconstruction of history aimed at building a new past, hence a quite different future.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Iran’s Islamic Revolution: The Return of the Hunchbacked Dwarf |
| ISBN-13: | 9780190087470 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190087470.013.10 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190087470.013... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Islamic revolution, Islamic government, velayat-e faqih, messianic Islam, clerical Islam |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10171721 |
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