A guerrilla odyssey

Vahabzadeh, Peyman.

A guerrilla odyssey modernization, secularism, democracy, and the Fadai period of national liberation in Iran, 1971-1979 / [electronic resource] : Peyman Vahabzadeh. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2010. - xxv, 289 p. : ill. - Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East . - Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Sāzmān-i Chirīkʹhā-yi Fadāʼī-i Khalq-i Īrān--History.


National liberation movements--History--Iran--20th century.
Guerrillas--History--Iran--20th century.
New Left--History--Iran--20th century.
Islamic modernism--History--Iran--20th century.
Islam and secularism--History--Iran--20th century.
Democracy--History--Iran--20th century.


Iran--Politics and government--1941-1979.


Electronic books.

DS316.6 / .V34 2010eb

956.704/3