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The Road to Democracy in Iran (Boston Review Books) PDF

144 Pages·2008·0.56 MB·English
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the road to democracy in iran the road to democracy in iran Akbar Ganji Foreword by Joshua Cohen and Abbas Milani A Boston Review Book the mit press Cambridge, Mass. London, England Copyright © 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. mit Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail special_sales@mitpress.mit.edu or write to Special Sales Department, The mit Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, ma 02142. This book was set in Adobe Garamond by Boston Review and was printed and bound in the United States of America. Text design by Joshua J. Friedman Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ganji, Akbar. [Essays. English. Selections] The road to democracy in Iran / Akbar Ganji ; foreword by Abbas Milani and Joshua Cohen ; translated by Abbas Milani. p. cm. — (A Boston review book) Includes bibliographical references. isbn 978-0-262-07295-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Democracy—Iran. 2. Human rights—Iran. I. Milani, Abbas. II. Title. JQ1789.A15G367 2008 320.955—dc22 2007050401 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Masoumeh Shafi ee— for her solidarity in our common struggle and her sacrifi ces for our family Contents Foreword ix Prologue: Letter to the free people of the world xvii 1 Why fi ght for human rights? 3 2 Democratic evolution in Iran 25 3 Notes on gender apartheid 43 4 Islam and the West 89 Joshua Cohen and Abbas Milani Foreword Over the course of its hundred-year history, the Iranian democratic move- ment has had a particularly complicated relationship with Shiism—Iran’s state religion. That complexity owes in part to competing tendencies within Shiism. One strand has sought to reconcile Islam with modern rationalism, democracy, and the rule of law. The second, powerfully expressed in Ayatollah Khomeini’s idea of a rule of the judges, has disparaged democracy and rationalism as modernist diseases and turned Shiism into a project

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