The Discourse of Islamic Civilization During the Pahlavi Period

By: Rasul Jafarian

Islamic thought in Iran underwent a transformation
starting in the years following the Persian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911). The reason for this was the entry of new intellectual elements from the modern world and their influence on Islamic ideas and ways of thinking, offering interpretations different from those of the past.

"Modernism" (tajaddud-khāhī) became one of the main components of these new ideas, and Islamic thinkers in Iran sought to establish a place for it. The central question of this book is: What kind of plan or vision did Iranian Islamic thinkers of this period have for an "Islamic civilization"? How did they define the relationship of Islamic thought to tradition, to Western thought, and to the new ideals that had emerged in Iran?

In this book, drawing on a wide range of texts published over more than half a century (1925-1979), an attempt has been made to trace the development of new discourses on Islamic civilization during this period.

Rasul Jafarian, born in 1964 in Isfahan, studied in the seminary of Qom in the fields of Islamic sciences and
Islamic history. He obtained his master's degree in 1990 and his doctorate in 2005. Since 2000, he has been affiliated with the Hawza and University Research Institute in Qom, and since 2006-nearly twenty years-he has been teaching Islamic and Iranian history at the Faculty of Literature of University of Tehran.
His research focuses on the history of Islam and Islamic Iran. He has authored works on the history of Shi'ism in Iran and on the Safavid period. He has also written several works on the history of Islamic thought in contemporary Iran.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955725365
• ISBN13: 9781955725361
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Gharai
• Length: 746 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.8" x 7.0"