The Dissident Mullah

ISBN: 9781784531737 出版年：2015 页码：304 Ulrich von Schwerin Bloomsbury Publishing

The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integrfounding of the Islamic Republic in tIranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at tdeath, Montazeri was considered one of the Islamic Republic's fiercest critics. What made this man, who was once considered the leading advocate of the state doctrine of the 'Guardianship of the Jurist' (velayat-e faqih) and the designated successor to the supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, change his views? How did his political theory incorporate issues such as civil rights, pluralism and popular participation? And what influence did his ideas have on others? Ulrich von Schwerin's book answers these questions by examining the evolution of Montazeri's political thought over the course of five decades, and studies hdiscourse on religion and politics in Iran. In doing so, he sheds a new light most crucial events and vital protagonists of recent Iranian history.