Visible and Invisible Religiosity Probing into issues of Islamism and Post-Islamism

Document Type : Original Research

Author
Seyed Javad Miri
Associate Professor of Sociology and History of Religions, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Abstract: In this paper the author is attempting to assess both Islamism and Post-Islamism discourses and sees whether it is possible to talk about a Post-Islamist turn in the Muslim World, in general, and Iran, in particular. The author believes that we are still in an Islamist era but the challenges ahead belong to competitions between different approaches to Islamism rather than post-Islamist discourses. By arguing this, the author attempts to analyze how these competing discourses may affect the notion and locus of the state in Iran.

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The International Journal of Humanities
Volume 30, Issue 4
Autumn 2023
Pages 42-54