Iran: Breaking with Pahlavi Modernism and Shiʿi Orthodoxy
摘要
In this chapter, I first review Iranian modernism, which took on two forms: constitutional Iranconstitutional modernismand authoritarianModernism(s)authoritarian. I then outline the quietist political ideologyPolitical ideology or ideologies of Twelver ShiʿismTwelver Shiʿism and the revolutionary challenge KhomeiniKhomeini, Ruhollah posed to it with his idea of the guardianship of the juristIranguardianship of the jurist or . In the third section, I contextualize political ideologypolitical ideology or ideologies by looking at the crisis of the Pahlavi regime, KhomeiniKhomeini, Ruhollah’s leadership, and his institutional facilitators.