TY - BOOK AU - ALI MIRESEPASSI TI - INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE AND THE POLITICS OF MODERNIZATION : NEGOTIATING MODERNITY IN IRAN SN - 9780521659970 U1 - 955.05 PY - 2000/// CY - NEW YORK PB - CAMBRIDGR UNIVERSITY PRESS KW - IRAN-POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-20th CENTURY KW - POLITICS AND CULTURE-IRAN KW - ISLAM AND SECULARISM-IRAN N2 - Ali Mirsepassi explores Eurocentric assumptions about modernity and Islamic Fundamentalism. He argues the Iranian Revolution was not a clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture and assesses the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East ER -