This book examines one of the most influential movements in our recent history, the Iranian Revolution and offers a fresh analysis that aids the reader in understanding the reconciliation of Islamic laws with the practices of constitutionalism and parliamentary democracy in Iran. The author examines the two historical examples of how the Islamic authorities, the Ulama or the clergy, took over the ultimate political authority, the state; in both the 1906 Constitutional Revolution and the 1979 revolution, though it focuses mainly on the dynamics of the second revolution. The book deals with the institutionalizing of rational-legal rule in Iran and its connection to Islam and Islamic Law.
- ISBN10 0415944392
- ISBN13 9780415944397
- Publish Date 1 September 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English