Introduction
1: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution
2: Dual Leadership and Constitutional Developments after
Khomeini
3: Thermidor at Last: Hashemi-Rajsanjani's Presidency
(1989-1997)
4: Revolutionary Ideology and Its Transformation into Islamic
Reformism
5: The Rise and Fall of President Khatami and the Reform Movement
(1997-2005)
6: Social and Political Consequences of the Integrative
Revolution
7: Iran's Foreign Policy from the Export of Revolution to
Pragmatism
8: Iran's New Political Class and the Ahmadinejad Presidency
9: Khomeinis Successor: Ayatollah Khamenei as the IRI Leader
10: The Hardliners, Foreign Policy and Nuclear Development
Conclusion
Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University. He is the founder and president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and the editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies. He is the author of The Turban for the Crown.
"A clear analysis of Iran's political and ideological
transformation in the post-Khomeini period. Dealing with a broad
range of issues from political development and constitutional
politics to Islamic reformism and the rise of new conservatives,
this book is a valuable addition to Iranian studies and current
debates in the sociology of revolution."--Ali Gheissari, University
of San Diego
"Said Arjomand illuminates post-revolutionary Iran by placing it in
its broad historical and sociological setting. His familiarity with
Islamic texts, together with his careful reading of modern
revolutions, makes him exceptionally well qualified to understand
and communicate what religion in this case has done to revolution
and, perhaps even more importantly, what revolution has done to
Shi'ite Islam in Iran. Coming twenty years after his masterful
analysis of
the Iranian revolution in The Turban for the Crown, this treatment
of the revolution After Khomeini removes some of the mystery from
one of the most consequential events of our times."--Gary Sick,
Columbia University
"With an unsurpassed command over the material and events and a
comparativist perspective, Said Amir Arjomand rescues our entrapped
understanding of Iran and sets a superior standard for a new
generation of scholarship. It is impossible to understand what has
happened in Iran of the last three decades without a careful
reading of this uncommonly perceptive and extraordinary
book."--Hamid Dabashi, author of Iran: A People Interrupted
"After Khomeini may indeed prove to be a conceptually
ground-breaking work of great interest to both lay people and
specialists in Iranian, Middle Eastern, Islamic studies, and the
sociology of revolution....The work constitutes an invaluable
contribution to a genuine theoretical understanding of
post-revolutionary and post-reformist Iran, insofar as it seeks to
uncover the complex interplay of the intended as well as of the
unintended consequences of
the 1979 revolution."--American Journal of Islamic Social
Sciences
"In this timely book, Amir Arjomand concisely presents an
analytical perspective on the post-Khomeini Iran that one expects
from much longer books...Arjomand's analysis here and in other
parts of the book, I believe, may open exciting paths to pursue for
graduate students in the field of Iranian studies."--Contemporary
Islam
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