Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran

Author/Contributor(s):	Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	11/12/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly, frequently, and dramatically in accordance with elites' threat perceptions. Religious Statecraft constructs a new picture of Iranian politics in which power drives Islamist ideology.