Theocratic Secularism

For more than forty years, there has been a religious government in Iran that claims to be rooted in shi''i political theology. In this book, Naser Ghobadzadeh intends to show that this reading of shi''i political theology is a fundamental deviation from orthodox shi''ism. The principle of theocracy is one of the most fundamental principles of the shi''i orthodox belief system, but its realization...