How Islam Rules In Iran

Author : Nobuaki Kondo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351783187

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Islamic Law and Society in Iran by Nobuaki Kondo Pdf

The relationship between Islamic law and society is an important issue in Iran under the Islamic Republic. Although Islamic law was a pivotal element in the traditional Iranian society, no comprehensive research has been made until today. This is because modern reformers emphasized the lack of rule of law in nineteenth-century Iran. However, a legal system did exist, and Islamic law was a substantial part of it. This is the first book on the relationship between Islamic law and the Iranian society during the nineteenth century. The author explores the legal aspects of urban society in Iran and provides the social context in which political process occurred and examines how authorities applied law in society, how people utilized the law, and how the law regulated society. Based on rich archival sources including court records and private deeds from Qajar Tehran, this book explores how Islamic law functioned in Iranian society. The judicial system, sharia court, and religious endowments (vaqf) are fully discussed, and the role of ‘ulama as legal experts is highlighted throughout the book. It challenges nationalist and modernist views on nineteenth-century Iran and provides a unique model in terms of the relationship between Islamic law and society, which is rather different from the Ottoman case. Providing an understanding of this legal system in Iran and its role in society, this book offers a basis for assessing the motives and results of modern reforms as well as the modernist discourse. This book will be of interest to students of Middle Eastern and Iranian Studies.

Author : Mehran Tamadonfar
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781498507578

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Islamic Law and Governance in Contemporary Iran by Mehran Tamadonfar Pdf

The current rise of Islamism throughout the Muslim world, Islamists’ demand for the establishment of Islamic states, and their destabilizing impact on regional and global orders have raised important questions about the origins of Islamism and the nature of an Islamic state. Beginning with the Iranian revolution of the late 1970s and the establishment of the Islamic Republic to today’s rise of ISIS to prominence, it has become increasingly apparent that Islamism is a major global force in the twenty-first century that demands acknowledgment and answers. As a highly-integrated belief system, the Islamic worldview rejects secularism and accounts for a prominent role for religion in the politics and laws of Muslim societies. Islam is primarily a legal framework that covers all aspects of Muslims’ individual and communal lives. In this sense, the Islamic state is a logical instrument for managing Muslim societies. Even moderate Muslims who genuinely, but not necessarily vociferously, challenge the extremists’ strategies are not dismissive of the political role of Islam and the viability of an Islamic state. However, sectarian and scholastic schisms within Islam that date back to the prophet’s demise do undermine any possibility of consensus about the legal, institutional, and policy parameters of the Islamic state. Within its Shi’a sectarian limitations, this book attempts to offer some answers to questions about the nature of the Islamic state. Nearly four decades of experience with the Islamic Republic of Iran offers us some insights into such a state’s accomplishments, potentials, and challenges. While the Islamic worldview offers a general framework for governance, this framework is in dire need of modification to be applicable to modern societies. As Iranians have learned, in the realm of practical politics, transcending the restrictive precepts of Islam is the most viable strategy for building a functional Islamic state. Indeed, Islam does provide both doctrinal and practical instruments for transcending these restrictions. This pursuit of pragmatism could potentially offer impressive strategies for governance as long as sectarian, scholastic, and autocratic proclivities of authorities do not derail the rights of the public and their demand for an orderly management of their societies.

Author : Haleh Esfandiari
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0801856191

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Reconstructed Lives by Haleh Esfandiari Pdf

Iranian women tell in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. The Islamic revolution of 1979 transformed all areas of Iranian life. For women, the consequences were extensive and profound, as the state set out to reverse legal and social rights women had won and to dictate many aspects of women's lives, including what they could study and how they must dress and relate to men. Reconstructed Lives presents Iranian women telling in their own words what the revolution attempted and how they responded. Through a series of interviews with professional and working women in Iran—doctors, lawyers, writers, professors, secretaries, businesswomen—Haleh Esfandiari gathers dramatic accounts of what has happened to their lives as women in an Islamic society. She and her informants describe the strategies by which women try to and sometimes succeed in subverting the state's agenda. Esfandiari also provides historical background on the women's movement in Iran. She finds evidence in Iran's experience that even women from "traditional" and working classes do not easily surrender rights or access they have gained to education, career opportunities, and a public role.

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009460835

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How Islam Rules in Iran by Mehran Kamrava Pdf

Examines the jurisprudential justifications that underlie the continuous and ever-changing relationship between state and religion in Iran.

Author : Ziba Mir-Hosseini,Richard Tapper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857713759

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Islam and Democracy in Iran by Ziba Mir-Hosseini,Richard Tapper Pdf

In today's world all eyes are on Iran, which has grappled with an experiment that has had a massive global impact. For some, the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 was the triumph of a modern, political Islam, heralding Muslim justice and economic prosperity. Others, including many of the original revolutionaries, saw religious fanatics attempting to roll back time by creating a despotic theocracy. Either way, the Iranian Revolution changed the Muslim world. It not only inspired the Muslim masses but also reinvigorated intellectual debates on the nature and possibilities of an Islamic state. The new 'Islamic Republic of Iran' combined not just religion and the state, but theocracy and democracy. Yet the revolution's heirs were soon engaged in a protracted struggle over its legacy. Dissident thinkers, from within an Islamic framework, sought a rights-based political order that could accept dissent, tolerance, pluralism, women's rights and civil liberties. Their ideas led directly to the presidency of Mohammad Khatami and, despite their political failure, they did leave a permanent legacy by demystifying Iranian religious politics, and condemning the use of the Shariah to justify autocratic rule. This book tells the story of the reformist movement through the world of Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari. An active supporter of the revolution who became one of the most outspoken critics of theocracy, Eshkevari developed ideas of 'Islamic democratic government', which have attracted considerable attention in Iran and elsewhere. In presenting a selection of Eshkevari's writings, this book reveals the intellectual and political trajectory of a Muslim thinker and his attempts to reconcile Islam with reform and democracy. As such it makes a highly original contribution to our understanding of the difficult social and political issues confronting the Islamic world today.

Author : Hamid R. Kusha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351882316

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The Sacred Law of Islam by Hamid R. Kusha Pdf

Islam’s Sacred Law is one of the most complex, detailed and comprehensive legal theories that Islam, as a Western religion, has produced in its capacity as a doctrine of social justice. However, few available texts have dealt with the treatment of women under the actual system of justice that adheres to Islam’s Sacred Law. This book fills this void by providing a much needed comprehensive study of the application of the Sacred Law to women under the Islamic Republic of Iran’s justice system. It will be a fascinating guide to all those interested in comparative law, criminal justice and the sociology of law.

Author : Asghar Schirazi
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030006527

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The Constitution of Iran by Asghar Schirazi Pdf

With the recent landslide election victory of the reformist President Khatami in Iran, the relationship between religion and politics in Islam is likely to change dramatically. This book is a milestone in our understanding of the ideology and practice of an Islamic state. Asghar Schirazi chronicles and analyzes political life in Iran since the revolution, showing the gradual transformation of the state from intended theocracy and republic to a hierocracy in which Islam and the shari'a play a subordinate role. He thus provides the context for the dramatic debate between reformists and traditionalists in Iran. Schirazi addresses the major contradictions inherent in the Iranian constitution--between its legalistic and democratic components on the one hand, and between the alleged potential of a legally and ideologically interpreted Islam to resolve social problems as against the growing evidence that this Islam is an inadequate legal and political basis for government. He charts the gradual replacement of Islamic legalism with a political practice based centrally on the interests of the state, and points to a growing crisis of the shari'a that will open the way for possible developments of Islam in the future.

Author : M. Mahmood
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Geschichte
ISBN : 8178355205

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The Political System of the Islamic Republic of Iran by M. Mahmood Pdf

The book is an authentic and authoritative introduction to the contemporary political establishment in Iran. The book analyses incisively the political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Students/research scholars of political science will find the study informative and unique in treatment on politics and prove beneficial for study.

Author : Lois Beck,Guity Nashat
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0252029372

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Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic by Lois Beck,Guity Nashat Pdf

The role of women in Iran has often been downplayed or obscured, particularly in the modern era. This volume demonstrates that women have long played important roles in different facets of Iranian society. Together with its companion, Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, this volume completes a two-book project on the central importance of Iranian women from pre-Islamic times through the creation and establishment of the Islamic Republic. It includes essays from various disciplines by prominent scholars who examine women's roles in politics, society, and culture and the rise and development of the women's movement before and during the Islamic Republic. Several contributors address the issue of regional, ethnic, linguistic, and tribal diversity in Iran, which has long contained complex, heterogenous societies.

Author : Yaḥyá Nūrī,Sayed Hassan Amin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X001276865

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Legal and Political Structure of an Islamic State by Yaḥyá Nūrī,Sayed Hassan Amin Pdf

Author : Goli M. Rezai-Rashti,Golnar Mehran,Shirin Abdmolaei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315301730

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Women, Islam and Education in Iran by Goli M. Rezai-Rashti,Golnar Mehran,Shirin Abdmolaei Pdf

Drawing on the complexities and nuances in women’s education in relation to the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, this edited collection examines implications of religious-based policies on gender relations as well as the unanticipated outcomes of increasing participation of women in education. With a focus on the impact of the Islamic Republic’s Islamicization endeavor on Iranian society, specifically gender relations and education, this volume offers insight into the paradox of increasing educational opportunities despite discriminatory laws and restrictions that have been imposed on women.

Author : Wilfried Buchta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Iran
ISBN : UOM:39015050134363

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Who Rules Iran? by Wilfried Buchta Pdf

Author : Ashk Dahlen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135943547

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Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity by Ashk Dahlen Pdf

This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occurring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. It is within this broad examination of a living legacy of interpretation that the context for the concretizations of traditional as well as modern Islamic learning, are enclosed.

Author : Alireza Ahmadian Zarchi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781329103245

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Conflicts of Family Law In Islam and Iran by Alireza Ahmadian Zarchi Pdf

The law, which was supposed to encourage marriage and the family institution, has turned into a tool of separation and divorce. Major problems between spouses that are related to the current family law exist in the area of finance mainly with regard to the marriage portion (mahr), daily expenses (nafaqah) and wages for housework. Each of these three items alone is enough to discourage young adults from getting married or bring about a collapse in the marriage and/or divorce among already married couples

Author : Salim A. Nakhjavani
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788283480627

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Constitutional Coherence and the Legal Status of the Bahá'í Community of Iran by Salim A. Nakhjavani Pdf