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Iran, 1953-1979: From the Shah to Islamic Revolution

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Islamist Radicalism and the Islamic Ideologues

Hamane who is now the current supreme leader was reading like and translating islamist ideologues. Shariaeti in his life in the early 70s when some of the clerics whom he's criticizing criticized him back they call him a cryptosunni too for some um wahabi tooYeah wahabi wahabi exactly that he is bringing these kind of traditions and ways of thinking about islam that are not indigenous to shiism to iranian shiism into the conversation  and confusing listeners yeah i did. I think this when we were to understand the guardianship of the juris i think probably the platonic philosopher kings is a good analogy but it

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