Democracy in Modern Iran challenges readers to think about Islam and democracy critically and in a far more nuanced way than is done in black-and-white dichotomies of Islam vs. Democracy, or Iran vs. the West.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Preface: “Where Is My Vote?”
• Introduction: Democracy and Culture
• 1 The Origins of Secularism in Europe
• 2 Modern Visions of Secularism
• 3 A Critical Understanding of Modernity
• 4 Intellectuals and Democracy
• 5 Religious Intellectuals
• 6 Alireza Alavi-Tabar and Political Change
• 7 The Predicaments of Iranian Public Intellectuals
• 8 An Intellectual Crisis in Iran
• Conclusion: Modernity and Its Traditions
• About the Author