@misc{Tavassoli2004, author = {Tavassoli, Gholam-Abbas}, title = {Islamic movements in Iran}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9699}, year = {2004}, abstract = {The modernist Islamic Movement sought to reconcile modern values and Islamic faith and attempted to express these values through an Islamic discourse and to reform political, religious and educational institutions along modernist lines. However, such a movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran raised controversy among the traditional leadership and secular intellectual groups. The aim of this paper is to discuss how far modernist Islam could progress in an islamic republic with an old tradition.}, language = {en} }