Iran After the Revolution

by Rahnema, Saeed; Behdad, Sohrab

• ISBN13: 9781860641282
• ISBN10: 1860641288
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-15
• Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies

Summary

In this work writers on Iran explore the ideological and political divisions within the Islamic movement and explain the post-revolutionary period in terms of economic policy, education, attitudes to women, and national and religious policies.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Ideological and historical perspectives: from the white revolution to the Islamic revolution, Ahmad Ashraf; state, political stability and property rights, Fatemeh E. Moghadam; competing Shi'i subsystems in contemporary Iran, Ali Rahnema and Farhad Nomani. Part 2 State and economy: the post-revolutionary economic crisis, Sohrab Behdad; continuity and change in industrial policy, Saeed Rahnema; the oil sector after the revolution, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani; the political economy of foreign exchange reform, Hossein Farzin. Part 3 Social policy and state legitimacy: regime legitimacy and high-school textbooks, Sussan Siavoshi; health policy and medical education, Asghar Rastegar; the politics of nationality and ethnic diversity, Shahrzad Mojab and Amir Hassanpour; public life and women's resistance, Haideh Moghissi.