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Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran

Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran Paperback - 2001

by Daniel Brumberg

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New. This study offers an interpretation of the political battles that paved the way for reform in Iran. The author 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 back to the revolution itself, and to the contradictory agendas of the revolution's founding father, Ayatollah Khomeini.
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  • Title Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran
  • Author Daniel Brumberg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-04-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780226077581
  • ISBN 9780226077581 / 0226077586
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.72 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Iran - Politics and government - 1997-, Iran - Politics and government - 1979-1997
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00057687
  • Dewey Decimal Code 955.054

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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.

First line

The notion that modern societies are beset by institutional and symbolic contradictions is hardly new.

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Reinventing Khomeini offers a new interpretation of the political battles for reform in Iran. Daniel Brumberg argues that these conflicts did not result from a sudden ideological shift; nor did the election of President Mohammad Khatami in 1997 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.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/2001, Page 1529

About the author

Daniel Brumberg is an assistant professor of government at Georgetown University. He is the editor of Ethnicity, Pluralism, and Democracy: A Critical Reader.