Scholars who have dealt with the issues of economic development and modernization have generally argued for a single, homogeneous modernity. Such standardized and Western-oriented views have not only prevented us from looking at the various stages of modernization within Muslim societies, but they have also caused us to neglect the different modernizations among them. For example, not only did the Ataturk’s, Reza Shah’s, and Abdul Nasser’s modernization programs differ, but the stages of modernization within each of these countries were also different. Taking the Iran example as one of the most important Muslim societies in the Middle East, this article shows that Iran, first, through the Qajar era, has experienced modernization programs, and second, there was a difference among the modernization programs under the pre-constitutional period, constitutional government period, and Pahlavis’ period. To this end, the main idea of this paper is to criticize the Orientalist tradition within the framework of Edward Said's theory, and to move from this tradition to understand various modernities in non-Western countries, especially Muslim societies.
Kaveh, S., Noori, H., Goodarzinezhad, B., & Goodarzi Nezhad, S. (2021). Different Modernities and Muslim Societies. Society and Culture in the Muslim World, (), -. doi: 10.22054/scmw.2020.47237.1014
MLA
Sajjad Kaveh; Hadi Noori; Behnam Goodarzinezhad; ShOkoofeh Goodarzi Nezhad. "Different Modernities and Muslim Societies". Society and Culture in the Muslim World, , , 2021, -. doi: 10.22054/scmw.2020.47237.1014
HARVARD
Kaveh, S., Noori, H., Goodarzinezhad, B., Goodarzi Nezhad, S. (2021). 'Different Modernities and Muslim Societies', Society and Culture in the Muslim World, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22054/scmw.2020.47237.1014
VANCOUVER
Kaveh, S., Noori, H., Goodarzinezhad, B., Goodarzi Nezhad, S. Different Modernities and Muslim Societies. Society and Culture in the Muslim World, 2021; (): -. doi: 10.22054/scmw.2020.47237.1014
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