Kingshuk Chatterjee — ‘Ali Shari’ati and the Shaping of Political Islam in Iran (2011)

• Series: Middle East Today
• Hardcover: 277 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 2011 edition (May 15, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0230113338
• ISBN-13: 978-0230113336
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches

This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy.

Kingshuk Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Calcutta University.

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