Javad Tabatabai

Javad Tabatabai (Persian: سید جواد طباطبایی; born 1945 in Tabriz, Iran) is an Iranian philosopher and political scientist. He was Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Tehran.

Javad Tabatabai

Life

After pursuing studies in theology, law and philosophy, he earned his PhD (Doctorat d’État) in political philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, with a dissertation on Hegel's political philosophy.[1] He has been a guest fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, as well as at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University. Tabatabai has published a dozen books on the history of political ideas in Europe and Iran. On 14 July 1995, he was decorated as a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.[2]

Thought

Javad Tabatabai, a leading theorist and historian of political thought in Iran, has presented a controversial theory regarding the causes of the decline of political thought and society in Iran over the last few centuries. His ideas on Iranian decline have affected the intellectual debates on modernity and democracy currently underway in Iran. Tabatabai's career-long research has revolved around this question: “What conditions made modernity possible in Europe and led to its abnegation in Iran?” He answers this question by adopting a “Hegelian approach” that privileges a philosophical reading of history on the assumption that philosophical thought is the foundation and essence of any political community and the basis for any critical analysis of it as well.[3] In 2001, in an interview with Libération, he says that political and ideological Islam is already dead, because they have no plans for modernity.[4]

Books
  • Introduction to the History of Political Thought in Iran
  • Decline of Political Thought in Iran
  • Essay on Ibn Khaldun: Impossibility of Social Sciences in Islam
  • Nizam al-Mulk and Iranian Political Thought: Essay on the Continuity of the Iranian Thought
  • On Iran: An Introduction to the Theory of Decline of Iran
  • On Iran: Tabriz School and Basis of Modernity
  • On Iran: The Theory of Constitutionalism in Iran

References
  1. Fariba Taghavi, Secular Apparition: The Resurgence of Liberal-democratic Intellectual .., ProQuest 2007, p.164-
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2013-09-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Boroujerdi, M., & Shomali (A. 2015). "The Unfolding of Unreason: Javad Tabatabai's Idea of Political Decline in Iran". Iranian Studies. 48 (6): 949–965. doi:10.1080/00210862.2014.926661. Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. "Javad Tabatabai : L'islam politique est voué à l'échec". Libération.fr (in French). 2001-10-27. Retrieved 2019-09-13.


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