political science
Meisam Ghahreman
Abstract
Foucault's view of the Islamic Revolution, both during his lifetime and after, provoked different debates and reactions and various works were written about it. One of the most controversial works is “Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism” by Janet Afary ...
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Foucault's view of the Islamic Revolution, both during his lifetime and after, provoked different debates and reactions and various works were written about it. One of the most controversial works is “Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism” by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson. On the one hand, this book can be considered a political reaction to Islamism, and on the other hand, it is an epistemological critique of what the authors call "cultural relativism". Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi in his book "Foucault in Iran" while presenting the truth of Foucault's views on the Iranian revolution, also gives an appropriate answer to Afary and Anderson. In other words, in this book, he seeks to answer the question: How did Foucault make sense of the Iranian revolution? The present article has examined this issue from a particular point of view both of these works are formed within a discourse practice and, therefore, are different sentences of a statement and we must get rid of both equally.
political science
Majid Ostovar
Abstract
The Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979 criticized many theories of the revolution and again focused research on the revolution on humanities scholars. So far, this revolution has been studied from economic, political, psychological, social classes, cultural and discourse perspectives, and each of them ...
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The Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979 criticized many theories of the revolution and again focused research on the revolution on humanities scholars. So far, this revolution has been studied from economic, political, psychological, social classes, cultural and discourse perspectives, and each of them has proposed new perspectives on the study of the Islamic Revolution. One of them is the book "Revolution in Iran: The Roots of Turmoil" which is written by Mehran Kamerva and published in 1990 by Routledge Publications. Combining the sociological theories of the revolution with psychological and political theories and constructing a multidisciplinary approach to the Iranian revolution, he studies the policies of the government and the political field before the revolution and believes that the Pahlavi regime, after limiting economic ambitions. In the late 1970s and the diplomatic pressures of its main ally, the United States began to decay. Thus, groups and social classes disillusioned with modernization, using the open political space and Shiite ideology and leadership of the clergy, found revolutionary characteristics and with the weakness of the Shah and the regime's repressive forces were able to overthrow the Pahlavi government and replace it with a new political system. In this article, an attempt is made to critique the book based on the methodology of phenomenological sociology and the concept of symbolic mentality.
Persian Language and Literature
Fatemeh Rakei
Abstract
The book A Glance at the Literary Developments after the Victory of Islamic Revolution in the Realm of Poetry and Fiction by Bahjat-o- Sadat Hejazi was published in 2015 by the Elmi- Farhangi publications. The present article has been written to introduce and criticize the aforementioned book. The outcome ...
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The book A Glance at the Literary Developments after the Victory of Islamic Revolution in the Realm of Poetry and Fiction by Bahjat-o- Sadat Hejazi was published in 2015 by the Elmi- Farhangi publications. The present article has been written to introduce and criticize the aforementioned book. The outcome of the study shows that the book as a whole from both aspects is poor and fails to meet the requested standards. For this reason, it deserves not to be placed among other references before being reviewed drastically. Obviously, it would be useful provided that all the deficiencies be removed.
political science
Akbar Ashrafi
Abstract
This book has examined the historical course of Imam Khomeini’s struggles. In this review, the respected researcher used a simple and fluent pen that is comprehensible to all audiences of the book. However, it has omitted some of the events affecting the process of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. ...
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This book has examined the historical course of Imam Khomeini’s struggles. In this review, the respected researcher used a simple and fluent pen that is comprehensible to all audiences of the book. However, it has omitted some of the events affecting the process of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. On the other hand, the title chosen for the book is a theoretical title using the concept of ‘discourse’, while the researcher has not addressed the theoretical issues of ‘discourse’ in this book, and his research method, is not a discourse method, and so he had better use a historical title for his work. In this critical article, in addition to presenting a summary of the mentioned work, methodological and content critiques of the book are also presented in different sections. The main criticism of this work is that the title of the book is an idea, while the content and method used in it are historical. Also, in explaining the Islamic Revolution from Imam Khomeini’s point of view, the theory of the Islamic Revolution sought by Imam Khomeini should have been studied through his political thought, which has been neglected.
political science
Ali Hasanpour; Ali Ashraf Nazari; Seyed Mostafa Abtahi
Abstract
Understanding the nature of government and society has been one of the most important areas of study of political sociologists, especially analysts of the Constitutional Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The book of the displacement of the two revolutions seeks to answer the question of ...
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Understanding the nature of government and society has been one of the most important areas of study of political sociologists, especially analysts of the Constitutional Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The book of the displacement of the two revolutions seeks to answer the question of why in the traditional and backward Iranian society of the Qajar period, modern revolution and in the newly-established Iran, the Pahlavi period has occurred a religious revolution. The author puts forward the idea of a Migdal network, arguing that in a 300-year-old process of Shiite religion, there has been a turning point in esoteric and mysterious thinking of the social sphere that has reached the last stage of socialization with the Islamic Revolution. In this paper, we will attempt to review the book of the movement of two revolutions from three perspectives of form, content, and method. The results show that in spite of some criticisms, it has a desirable form, and efforts to present a native model focusing on culture and society, and in particular the Shiite religion and clergy as the subject of analysis, are the most important strengths of this work. In contrast, the author’s intellectual attachment to empathy with liberal democracy and modernization, along with the lack of a coherent method, has diminished the quality of content and method.
political science
Mohammad Shojaiyan
Abstract
Theda Skocpol’s theory about Iranian Islamic Revolution has been recognized as one of the suggested views about this case which was investigated in a book entitled "Review and Critique of Theories of the Islamic Revolution; Theda Skocpol’s Theory ". The author of this book prepared beneficial ...
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Theda Skocpol’s theory about Iranian Islamic Revolution has been recognized as one of the suggested views about this case which was investigated in a book entitled "Review and Critique of Theories of the Islamic Revolution; Theda Skocpol’s Theory ". The author of this book prepared beneficial discussions for this theory helpful for the demonstration of Skocpol’s significance in these fields, mainly the methodology she offered in her theory about social revolutions. The leading problem with this book seems to exist in a critique of the theory of Skocpol. The author tried to categorize critiques around this theory. This classification which includes the critiques within the paradigm, outside the paradigm and internal textual criticisms, faces with two major objections. The first objection refers to the foundation of this categorization. The second objection maintains that these criticisms – particularly in the first and second group of critiques – have indirect and distant relationship with the analysis of Theda Skocpol of the causes of the revolution in Iran. In addition, the author in the critique of the theory of Theda Skocpol ignored two important points. The first point was the SKocpol's reliance to the Rentier State’s theory concerning with the nature of the government in Iran in the era of the Islamic Revolution. The other was the Skocpol’s shift in her theory about the causes of the rise of social revolutions as a result of the occurrence of Islamic Revolution in Iran. If the respected author understood these cases seriously and genuinely, he could be more successful in the criticism of the Skocpol theory as his accuracy in writing up this theory.
political science
Mohammad Ali Hosseini Zadeh
Volume 18, Issue 6 , December 2018, , Pages 79-102
Abstract
The Social Backgrounds of Iran’s Revolution, written by Dr. Bashiriyeh and translated by Ali Ardestani, was published by Negahe Moaaser in 1393. The author applied different theories and concepts generally with Marxist orientation to examine the causes, processes, and consequences of Iran’s ...
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The Social Backgrounds of Iran’s Revolution, written by Dr. Bashiriyeh and translated by Ali Ardestani, was published by Negahe Moaaser in 1393. The author applied different theories and concepts generally with Marxist orientation to examine the causes, processes, and consequences of Iran’s revolution. The reduction of political struggle to class struggle and linking ideologies to classes and objective interests is the interesting but controversial feature of this book. This paper reviews the book in terms of method, theory, and historical data, and it finally concludes that despite applying various methods and extensive use of data and documentation, detailed explanations of the Islamic Revolution, the emergence of political Islam, and also the nature of the state in the Islamic Republic of Iran have not been offered. This article searches the causes of this failure in the author’s interest and inclination to the Marxist theories and uncritical application of modern concepts and theories in the Iranian society.
