Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies
"First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Genealogy, environment, convictions, friends and foes -- 2. Sangelaji's interlocutors -- 3. Reforming actually practiced Islam -- 4. The primacy of the Qur'an -- 5. Challenging reports -- 6. Reason and Islam -- 7. Popular Shi'ism -- 8. Was Sangelaji a Wahhabi? -- 9. Sangelaji's legacy.
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Shi 'ism caught the attention of the world as Iran experienced her revolution in 1979 and was subsequently cast in the mold of a monolithic discourse of radical political Islam. The spokespersons of Shi'i Islam, in or out of power, have not been the sole representatives of the faith. Nonconformist and uncompromising, the Shi'i jurist and reformist Shari'at Sangelaji (1891-1944) challenged certain popular Shi'i beliefs and the mainstream clerical establishment, guarding and propagating it. In Shi'i Reformation in Iran, Ali Rahnema offers a fresh understanding of Sangelaji's reformist discourse.