An Intellectual Biography of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari

This monograph details the life and ideas of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari, the leading representative of secular Islam among the Iranian clergy and a pioneer of the Post-Islamist Movements in Iran.

Autorentext

Katajun Amirpur is a distinguished professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Cologne. Her research encompasses Iranian intellectual history, Islamic reform discourses, gender issues, and Islamic environmental ethics. Among her notable publications are Iran ohne Islam, New Thinking in Islam: The Jihad for Freedom, Democracy, and Women's Rights, and Khomeini: Der Revolutionär des Islams.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Childhood and Early Youth 2. Teachers, Ideas and Influences at Qom 3. In the West 4. Return, Revolution, Resignation 5. Internal Exile 6. A Public Intellectual 7. Declared a Heretic 8. Silenced in Iran, but Listened to in Germany 9. J'accuse! 10. A Preliminary End