TY - BOOK AU - Ghamari-Tabrizi,Behrooz TI - Islam and dissent in postrevolutionary Iran: Abdolkarim Soroush, religious politics and democratic reform T2 - International library of Iranian studies SN - 9781845118792 : AV - DS318.825 .G475 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - I.B. Tauris, In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm. KW - Islam and politics KW - Iran KW - Politics and government KW - 1979-1997 KW - 1997- KW - History KW - Revolution, 1979 KW - Influence N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-302) and index; Introduction : ideological certainties, past and present -- The Islamic roots of modernity and the modern roots of Islamism -- Legitimizing the postrevolutionary regime : the genesis of the new constitution -- Abdolkarim Soroush : the intellectual voice of the Islamic Republic -- From the reign of terror to let a thousand flowers bloom -- From liberation theology to state ideology : Shari'ati and the emergence of new religious intellectuals -- The silence of the Shari'ah : Abdolkarim Soroush and the theological foundations of political reform -- Islam, democracy, and religious pluralism -- Conclusion : social change and the symbolic universe of religion ER -