Table of Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION: IDEOLOGICAL CERTAINTIES, PAST AND PRESENT
Totality, Utopia, and Foundationalism
From Fairytales to Nightmares
The Topic of this Book
2. THE ISLAMIC ROOTS OF MODERNITY AND THE MODERN ROOTS OF ISLAMISM
British Colonialism in India and the Islamic Modernism of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838- 1897)
Al-Ikhw?n al-Muslimun: The Birth of Political Islam
Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979): The Islamic State in Pakistan
Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966): The Establishment of the State of Israel
The Arab-Israeli War of 1967 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979
3. LEGITIMIZING THE POSTREVOLUTIONARY REGIME AND THE GENESIS OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION
The Genesis of the Constitution and Its Ratification
The Politics of the Assembly of Experts & the Final Draft of the Constitution
Vel?yat-e Faqih and the Right of Self-Determination
Sources of Legitimacy: The Faqih Meets Rousseau and Mao
National Interests and the Interests of the Ummah
Legislating and Ijtihad, the Constitution versus the Shari`ah
The Limits and boundaries of freedom and democracy
The Constitutional Referendum
From Sacralizing the State to Secularizing the Fiqh
4. ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH, THE INTELLECTUAL VOICE OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Soroush, Marxists, and the "Eclectics"
Anthropomorphism, Scientism and Historicism
Elitist Totalitarianism
Soroush and the Cultural Revolution
Soroush and the Cultural Revolution Council (CRC)I
Soroush, the Purged President, and the Obliterated Left
5. FROM THE REIGN OF TERROR TO LET A THOUSAND FLOWERS BLOOM
Factions Within
Things Fall Apart
Maslahat over Feq?hat
Amending the Constitution: The Institutionalization of the Absolute Rule of the Faqih
6. FROM LIBERATION THEOLOGY TO STATE IDEOLOGY ALI SHARI`ATI AND THE EMERGENCE OF NEW RELIGIOUS INTELLECTUALS
Islam as Ideology
Shari`ati the Iranian Gramsci
Ummah, Imamate, and the Ideological Society
The West and Gharbzadegi
7. THE SILENCE OF THE SHARI`AH: SOROUSH AND THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL REFORM
Soroush and the Critique of Islam as State Ideology
The Return from Ideology to Religion
The Theory of Shari`at-e S?met, The Silent Shari`ah
History, Culture, and Religious Knowledge
Secularism, Democracy, and the Religious State
Conceptions of Science and Technology
On Westoxication (Gharbzadegi)
The Return to "Authentic Self"
Responses: From Prodigy to Pariah
8. ISLAM, DEMOCRACY AND RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
Straight Paths and Religious Pluralism
Reason and Religion
The Eternity of the Qur'an
The Critics: Relativism, Secularism, and Democracy
Soroush Versus Soroush
Whither Soroush?
9. CONCLUSION: SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE SYMBOLIC UNIVERSE OF RELIGION
Bibliography
Index