RELIGIOUS SECULARITY: A THEOLOGICAL CHALLENGE TO THE ISLAMIC STATE

Authors : Pınar ARIKAN

Pages : 135-143

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Publication Date : 2016-01-01

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Based on the lived experience of an Islamic state in Iran since 1979, Ghobadzadeh problematizes the concept of Islamic state theoretically and questions the state-religion relationship within Iranian context. Iran has been going through the first modern Islamic state experience under the rule of the clergy. Ghobadzadeh argues that the theoretical ideal of the Islamic state has been crippled with the economic, socio-political, and theological contradictions of reality, and the notion of the Islamic state has been largely contested in Iran.
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