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The Struggle for Reform in Iran
University Of Chicago Press
April 2001
On Sale: April 15, 2001
320 pages
ISBN: 0226077586
EAN: 9780226077581
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Non-Fiction Political
Reinventing Khomeini offers a new interpretation of the
political battles that paved the way for reform in Iran.
Brumberg argues that these conflicts did not result from a
sudden ideological shift; nor did the election of President
Mohammad Khatami in 1997 really defy the core principles of
the Islamic Revolution. To the contrary, the struggle for a
more democratic Iran can be traced to the revolution itself,
and to the contradictory agendas of the revolution's
founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A complex figure, Khomeini was a fervent champion of Islam,
but while he sought a Shi'ite vision of clerical rule under
one Supreme Leader, he also strove to mesh that vision with
an implicitly Western view of mass participatory politics.
The intense magnetism and charisma of the ayatollah obscured
this paradox. But reformers in Iran today, while rejecting
his autocratic vision, are reviving the constitutional
notions of government that he considered, and even casting
themselves as the bearers of his legacy. In Reinventing
Khomeini, Brumberg proves that the ayatollah is as much the
author of modern Iran as he is the symbol of its
fundamentalist past.
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