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Seyed Javad Miri is the director of international relations at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies in Iran. He has written over 40 books including East and West: Allama Jafari on Bertrand Russell (University Press of America, 2013) and Reflections on the Social Thought of Allama M.T. Jafari: Rediscovering the Sociological Relevance of the Primordial School of Social Theory (University Press of America, 2010).
Foreword
Preface
Chapter One: Redrawing the Map of Political Thought in an Islamist Era
Chapter Two: Governmentality in the Balance of Gnosticism
Introduction
On Management and Leadership
On Leadership and Constructive Gnosis
Fundamental Obligation of Government
Leadership and Society
Governing and Alienation
Management’s Fundamental Obligation
The intelligible life and equal rights
Chapter Three: Religion, Politics and Other Sagas
Introduction
Politics: A Conceptual Makeover
Religion: Emancipative or Oppressive Factor?
Political Gnosticism or Mystical Politics
Power and its functions
Manifestations of Authority
Religion and its Janus-Face
Chapter Four: Social Life Redesigned
Introduction
Types of Politics
Political Islam
Eurocentrism and Politics in a critical balance
Absence of Politics in the Empire of Islam
Designing of Social Life
Intelligible Freedom
Chapter Five: Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority
Introduction
Politics and the Sunnite Interpretation
Sovereignty in Islam
Revisiting the Principle of Divine Authority
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Muslims beginning especially with the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini have demanded a certain religious visibility, as Seyed Javad Miri has demonstrated, in their societies. However, even if Islamism is the future, it must be infused, as Miri points out, with the spirit of deliberative democracy, which philosophically separates the sources of legitimism from the particular actions of any given political actor.
— Dustin J. Byrd, professor at Olivet College, Michigan
Muslims beginning especially with the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini have demanded a certain religious visibility, as Seyed Javad Miri has demonstrated, in their societies. However, even if Islamism is the future, it must be infused, as Miri points out, with the spirit of deliberative democracy, which philosophically separates the sources of legitimism from the particular actions of any given political actor.
— Dustin J. Byrd