JIRA Vol. 15.2 November 1999

 

TABLE OF CONTENT

 

Articles

 

A: Student Unrest

Editor: Introduction

Ali Akbar Mahdi: "The Student Movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran"

Cyrus Bina: "The Hot Summer Of Defiance: Student Protests In Iran"

Ali Mohammadi: "Government Within the Government: Roots of Attacks on Students".

Charles Kurzman: "Student Protests and the Stability of Gridlock in Khatami’s Iran"

Hamid Hosseini: "Compatibility of Velayat-e-Faghih to Democracy and Human Rights "

Val Moghadam: "The Student Protests and the Social Movement for Reform in Iran: Sociological Reflections"

Mahmood Monshipoori: "Civil Society, Velayat-e faqih, and Rule of Law"

Farhang Rajaee: "Voices of Modernity: Contextualizing the Students’ Protest in Iran"

Nader Entessar: "Student Unrest and Iran's Military"

Haleh Vaziri: "The United States' Iranian Strategy: Holding its Breath and Hoping for the Best?"

Thomas M. Ricks: "Iran's Silent Revolution: The Restless Youth"

Kamran M. Dadkhah: "Economic Causes of the July Student Unrest"

Hamid Zangeneh: "Economic Consequences of Student Unrest"

 

B: Other Articles

Homa Katouzian: Toward a General Theory of Iranian Revolution"

Abdollah Payrow Shabani: "Rethinking the Iranian Revolution in view of the Concept of Political Culture"

 

 

Research Forum

Ramin Jahanbegloo: "Dialogue of Civilizations: Responsibility of Iranian Intellectuals"

M. Agus Nuryatno: "Dialogue of Civilizations: An Attempt to Create World Peace"

 

 

Book

ReviewsSandra Mackey, The Iranians: Persia, Islam, and the Soul of a Nation.  New York: Plume, 1998.

Herbert L. Bodman and Nayereh Tohidi, eds., Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity Within Unity.  Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia, edited by Mehdi Amin Razavi.  Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996.

Ali Rahnema, An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shariati, London and New York: I. B. Taurus, 1998.

John F. Standish, Persia and the Gulf: Retrospect and Prospect.  Surrey: Curzon Press, 1998.

Jamsheed K. Choksy, Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Ali Akbar Mahdi, Farhang-e Irani, J'ame'eh-ye Madani, va Daghdaghe-ye Demokr'asi (Iranian Culture, Civil Society, and Concern for Democracy). Toronto: Javan Publishing Co., l998.

Richard K. Khuri, Freedom, Modernity, and Islam: Toward a Creative Synthesis.   PRIVATE Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Geoffrey Kemp and Robert E. Harkavy, Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East. (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997).

Mehran Kamrava, Democracy in the Balance: Culture and Society in the Middle East.  New York: Seven Bridges Press, 1998.

Asef Bayat, Street Politics: Poor People’s Movements in Iran. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 232 (including notes and index).