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WHEN SUPERSTITION CREEPS INTO IRANIAN POLITICS

7th March 2012, 15:00 to 16:30, The Al-Qasimi Building, Elvet Hill Road, Eoom 102

The Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof Ali Rahnema, The American University of Paris

Followed By Tea

Professor Ali Rahnema is one of the leading academics interested in the late modern and contemporary history of Iran, with an emphasis on the interaction between politics, economics and religion. In his comparative interdisciplinary research he has focused on modern Islamic thinkers and their political, social and economic rendition of Islam as well as the movements resulting from them. His most recent book is Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Contact alice.skerratt@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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