Iranian thinker
Davood Feirahi
Davood FeirahiPolitical ThoughtIranian1964–2020
Shiite jurisprudence possesses within itself the potential for rethinking and renewal, provided we refrain from imposing modern presuppositions upon it and instead discover its internal logic.
Life and Thought
Davoud Feirahi (1964–2020) was a political science researcher and professor at the University of Tehran. He was considered one of the contemporary theorists in the field of Islamic political thought and Shiite political jurisprudence, and authored numerous works on the relationship between jurisprudence and the modern state.
Bibliography
Writings and transcribed lectures11 titles
Power, Knowledge and Legitimacy in Islam
The Islamic State and the Productions of Religious Thought
Political System and Government in Islam
The History of the Evolution of the State in Islam
Methodology and Political Thought in Islam
Religion and State in the Modern Age
Fiqh and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Political Fiqh and Constitutional Fiqh
Fiqh and Politics in Contemporary Iran: The Transformation of Governance and the Fiqh of Islamic Government
The Threshold of Modernity: A Commentary on Tanbīh al-Umma wa Tanzīh al-Milla
Fiqh and Party Governance
The Concept of Law in Contemporary Iran: Pre-Constitutional Developments
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