HTST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Reza Shah, Iranian Revolution

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: History
• Course: HTST 200
• Professor: Paul Anthony Chastko

Document Summary

Identify the long term and short term causes of the iranian revolution. In much of the muslim world, the role of the clergy isn"t rigidly hierarchical or organized (not formally organized) In sunni faith, access to holy word of the quran is available to anyone who can read. In shi"a faith, more of a structured clergy, the clergy plays the role of gods: clergy is not only a guide to faith, but also plays the role of judges because. Islam is not just a religion, it"s a source of law and the clergy is just a guide to faith but it also plays the role of judges: clergy serves as the interpreter. In western liberalism the rule of law refers to the rule of secular law that is tolerant of other religions. In islamic liberalims the rule of law is deeply religious.