Islam and dissent in postrevolutionary Iran : Abdolkarim Soroush, religious politics and democratic reform / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [290]-302) and index.

Introduction : ideological certainties, past and present -- The Islamic roots of modernity and the modern roots of Islamism -- Legitimizing the postrevolutionary regime : the genesis of the new constitution -- Abdolkarim Soroush : the intellectual voice of the Islamic Republic -- From the reign of terror to let a thousand flowers bloom -- From liberation theology to state ideology : Shariàti and the emergence of new religious intellectuals -- The silence of the Shariàh : Abdolkarim Soroush and the theological foundations of political reform -- Islam, democracy, and religious pluralism -- Conclusion : social change and the symbolic universe of religion.