ملخص الجهاز:
The author first reminds the importance of return of religion to political scene of Iran since the beginning of the second half of the 20th century, which took place through a modernistic politico• religious movement, and intends to discuss attitudes of several prominent figures of that movement about the relationship oflslam and democracy to reveal what theoretical measure have been taken by them during their anti-tyrannical campaign to bring the two entities to a compromise.
Following the BernardLewis, the master signifier in introduction of new ideas into Islamic the Islamic political discourse from countries in 19th century, the idea of long ago was 'justice' and not democracy was brought to the fore freedom'" The main difficulty facing once more and, this time, it was taken reformists and modernist thinkers was to be equivalent to parliamentary, the existence of jurisprudential constitutional or even a republic concepts such as apostasy, rights of government.
Chapters four and five, which are titled "Religious Modernism and Democracy in Iran" and "post• Revolutionmy Religious Intellectuals and Democracy (Abdolkarim Soroush)" has been dedicated to a discussion of the relationship between Islam and democracy from the viewpoints of a number of prominent political and religious personalities.
The authorbelievesthat out of the theories presented by six of the studied personalities, a special kind of democracy emerged within the frame of political ideology of Islam, which is more attuned -to the traditional concepts and views.