Iran, Islam, and Democracy

Revised, updated, and expanded, this new edition details political developments in Iran since the summer of 2000. In expanding on arguments outlined in the first edition, the book looks at the increasing polarity of views and the changing nature of "reformism" in light of successive setbacks and growing international tensions.

Dr Ali M Ansari is Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme, RIIA, and Lecturer in the Political History of the Middle East, CMEIS, University of Durham

Preface to the second edition

xi

About the Author

xiv

Acknowledgments

xv

Glossary

xvii

Chronology

xix

Introduction

1

(2)

Structure of the book

3

(1)

Sources

4

(3)

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Theoretical Context

7

(17)

Iran, Islam and the 'secularization thesis'

11

(7)

Civil society and democratic development

18

(6)

The Politics of Managing Change

24

(16)

A contested inheritance

24

(1)

The roots of democratic development

25

(15)

The constitutional period, 1906--21

25

(4)

Reza Shah and the Pahlavi autocracy

29

(2)

The Interregnum, 1941--53

31

(4)

The restoration of autocracy, 1953--79

35

(5)

Revolution, Republic and War

40

(12)

The dialectics of the 'collective will'

40

(2)

The limits of 'charisma'

42

(1)

Competing movements

43

(2)

Religious nationalism

45

(1)

An unorthodox legacy

46

(2)

The ideological dimensions of power

48

(1)

Causes of authoritarian domination

49

(1)

The war

49

(3)

Rafsanjani and the Ascendancy of the Mercantile Bourgeoisie

52

(30)

The roots and development of the 'mercantile bourgeois republic'

53

(11)

Developments in intellectual life

64

(6)

The intellectual revitalization of the myth of political emancipation

70

(3)

The theoretical foundations of an Islamic democracy

73

(6)

Social responses to the bourgeois republic

79

(3)

The Failure of the Mercantile Bourgeois Republic and the Election of Khatami

82

(28)

Parties and personalities

83

(11)

The election campaign

94

(14)

The election of 2 Khordad

108

(2)

Contested Hegemonies and the Institutionalization of Power

110

(31)

The reformist world-view

112

(2)

Policies

114

(2)

Agents of change (1): students

116

(2)

Agents of change (2): the press

118

(1)

Agents of obstruction

119

(3)

A new beginning

122

(7)

The foreign policy of reintegration

129

(12)

The Dialectics of Reform

141

(35)

The politics of managing change

142

(2)

The parameters of 'civil society'

144

(4)

Constitutionalism and historical appropriation

148

(2)

Reform and reaction

150

(18)

The politics of economic reform

168

(8)

The Tide of Reform

176

(42)

The chain murders

177

(4)

The imprisonment of Kadivar

181

(5)

The student riots

186

(10)

The campaign for the Sixth Majlis and the arrest of Nuri

196

(11)

The dialectic returns

207

(6)

High tide?

213

(5)

The Tide Stemmed

218

(27)

The attempted assassination of Hajarian

219

(3)

The Berlin conference

222

(1)

The emasculation of the Majlis

223

(4)

The presidential elections of 2001

227

(2)

Reform in the shadow of 9/11

229

(2)

Iranian--US relations in the shadow of Afghanistan

231

(3)

The 'axis of evil'

234

(6)

Gridlock and the pursuit of constitutional reform

240

(5)

Full Circle?

245

(23)

Lost opportunities: Aghajari, Shahroudi, Taheri

245

(8)

America and the pollsters

253

(1)

Reform in the shadow of Iraq

254

(4)

Iran and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

258

(3)

The arrogance of power

261

(7)

Conclusion: From Reform to Neo-conservatism

268

(17)

Opportunities lost

271

(10)

The end of an era?

281

(4)

Appendix I: A Crisis Every Nine Days: Khatami's First Term

285

(12)

Appendix II: Ayatollah Taheri's Resignation Letter

297

(5)

Appendix III: Letter from 127 Deputies to the Leader Ayatollah Khamene'i

302

(7)

Select Bibliography

309

(12)

Index

321

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