Ahmad Qābel, Religious Secularity and Velāyat-e Faqih in Iran

Religious secularity and Islam have not often been considered in the West as comfortable bedfellows, yet the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 questioned assumptions about the appropriateness of separate spheres for religion and politics. However, within a decade of the revolution, theoretical and...

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Main Author: Ridgeon, Lloyd V. J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 5
Further subjects:B Ahmad Qābel
B Iran
B velāyat-e faqih
B religious secularity
B foqahā
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