The IRI’s Elite Approaches Sample Clauses

The IRI’s Elite Approaches. Hermeneutics and Traditions From the early nineties onward notions such as ‘culture’ and ‘political culture’ versus ‘return to tradition’ and ‘Islamisation’ enjoyed a great deal of popularity amongst Iranian intellectuals as well as some members of political authority and the religious establishment in the IRI. This renewed attention formed part of a more fundamental criticism of the ideologies as well as legitimacy of the clerical leadership, and moreover questioned the rule of religiously jurisprudence in a Republican political system. Most importantly, this renewed attention brought challenges on the functional logic of the Political Islam ideology that is believed was extracted from the teaching of the exegesis (Xxxxxxxx, H., 2002). A theoretical debate, however, about culture and political culture next to some changes in the socio-economic composition of social classes as well as a gradual ideological moderation joined up with the introduction of hermeneutics and post-modernist critical thought to set up a series of discussions on the relative merits of different political alternatives and their various results towards accelerating modernisation.9 The importance of such a move, as Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, for instance, pointed out was that views on the notions such as tradition and modernity, culture and political culture in twenty-century Iran are not just the fruits of theoretical conjectures but reflect the state of political reality (Bashiriyeh, X., 2002, pp. 44-56). Moreover in post-revolutionary Iran despite the domination of the IRI Islamic political culture, the political philosophy of modernity continued to have an important influence on Iran’s intellectual life.10 This factor consequently played an important role on a 9 - For these debates see Eslahat dar barabare eslahat (Reforms against Reforms), Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Djalaaee-Pur, Xxxxx-Xxxxxx, Published by Xxxx-x Xx, Xxxxxx, 0000.