Title A guerrilla odyssey : modernization, secularism, democracy, and the Fadai period of national liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 / Peyman Vahabzadeh

Edition 1st ed Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 289 pages) : illustrations Series Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East Contents Iran in the 1960s : repressive development -- Organization of the Iranian People's Fadai Guerrillas (1971-1979) -- Bizhan Jazani : en route to a democratic theory of the liberation front -- Massoud Ahmadzadeh : theorizing armed struggle -- Three failed interlocutions : diverging propensities -- Mostafa Sho'aiyan : haunting return of plurivocal origination -- The Fadai movement -- Technologies of resistance -- Constitutive paradox : liberation, secularism, and the possibility of democratic action -- Appendix A : Fadai casualties, 1970-1979 -- Appendix B : The splits of Fadaiyan Summary Emerging in the early 1970s, the Organization of Iranian People's Fadai Guerrillas (OIPFG) became one of the most important secular leftist political organizations in Iran. Despite their lasting influence and the way in which their efforts helped shape the history of Iran for decades to come, little is known about the group. A Guerrilla Odyssey presents the first comprehensive examination of the rise and fall of the Fadai urban guerrilla movement in Iran. Drawing on exhaustive analyses of the published and unpublished works of the Fadai Guerrillas, as well as of archival material and interviews with activists, the author demonstrates historically and sociologically the conditions that surrounded the debut and demise of the urban guerrilla warfare that defined Iranian political life in the 1970s. Vahabzadeh offers a critique of various aspects of the Fadai's theories of national liberation in an attempt to reconsider the painful relationship among modernization, secularism, and democracy in contemporary Iran. In addition, the author makes a compelling case explaining why older revolutionary social movements of the 1960s and 1970s have transformed into the new democratic social movements that emerged from the 1980s onward in the form of today's women's, student, and youth movements in Iran. A Guerilla Odyssey is a meticulously researched and engrossing narrative that promises to be a major contribution to the field of Iranian history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Sāzmān-i Chirīkʹhā-yi Fadāʼī-i Khalq-i Īrān -- History Sāzmān-i Chirīkʹhā-yi Fadāʼī-i Khalq-i Īrān. National liberation movements -- Iran -- History -- 20th century Guerrillas -- Iran -- History -- 20th century New Left -- Iran -- History -- 20th century Islamic modernism -- Iran -- History -- 20th century Islam and secularism -- Iran -- History -- 20th century Democracy -- Iran -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt. Democracy. Guerrillas. Islam and secularism. Islamic modernism. National liberation movements. New Left. Politics and government Iran -- Politics and government -- 1941-1979. Iran. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780815651475 0815651473

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