The Formation of Civil Society in Modern Iran: Public Intellectuals and the StateThis book investigates the development of contemporary Iranian civil society and the role of public intellectuals, looking in particular at how different reformist public intellectuals used civil society to craft their vision of Iran's socio-political future. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Civil Society Social Movements
and Intellectuals | 18 |
3 Exploring the Iran Case | 45 |
4 Reformist Intellectuals and Civil Society | 67 |
5 The Practitioners of Modern Iranian Civil Society | 98 |
A Conservative
Perspective | 127 |
7 Conclusion | 147 |
Epilogue | 154 |
List of Cited Interviewees | 165 |
Notes | 167 |
| 171 | |
| 182 | |
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