Islamic Secularism and the Question of Freedom in Iran

My research deals with the question of ‘freedom’ in Iran and the appropriation of ‘liberal’ ideas by influential intellectuals with an Islamic persuasion. At the same time, I am conceptualising the term ‘Islamic secularism’ with a particular emphasis on the spectre of democracy in Iran. I argue that Iranian thinkers, whose philosophical nodal point continues to be a modernistic interpretation of Islam (or Islamism), have struggled to formulate a theory that would transcend the confines of the revolution and satisfy the demands for pluralism and liberty put forward during several protests in Iran and, of course, during the 2011 Arab revolts

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• “American Islam”

  Open Access•Fateh Saeidi•Digest of Middle East Studies•2026

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• A non-fundamentalist return to origin

  Open Access•Mohammad Rezaei•Critical Research on Religion•2020

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• Anti-Imperialism and the Pan-Islamic Movement

  Umar Ryad•Islam and the European Empires•2014

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• Islam in Liberalism

  Joseph Massad, Joseph Andoni Massad•Islam in Liberalism•2014

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• A Critical Introduction to Khomeini

  Open Access•Fakhreddin Azimi, Mojtaba Mahdavi et al.•Critical Introduction to Khomeini•2014

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• Freedom of Religion and Belief in Islam

  Mohsen Kadivar•The New Voices of Islam•2006

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• On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution

  Arshin Adib-Moghaddam•On the Arab Revolts and the…•2013

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• The International Politics of the Persian Gulf

  Arshin Adib-Moghaddam•International Politics of the…•2006

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• Islamic Utopian Romanticism and the Foreign Policy Culture of Iran

  Arshin Adib-Moghaddam•Critique Critical Middle Eastern…•2005

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• Global Intifadah? September 11th and the Struggle within Islam

  Arshin Adib-Moghaddam•Cambridge Review of International…•2002

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• Shi'i political discourse and class mobilization in the tobacco movement of 1890?1892

  Open Access•Mansoor Moaddel•Sociological Forum•1992

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• The pluralistic momentum in Iran and the future of the reform movement

  Arshin Adib-Moghaddam•Third World Quarterly•2006

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• Greek into Arabic. Essays on Islamic Philosophy

  J Van E, Josef van Ess et al.•Die Welt des Islams•1973

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