Ali Reza Majlesi's Books

Living with Late-Stage Dementia

Communication, Support, and Interaction

By: LARS-CHRISTER. EKSTROM HYDEN (ANNA. REZA MAJLESI, ALI.),Anna Ekström,Ali Reza Majlesi

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Living with Late-Stage Dementia

Communication, Support, and Interaction

By: LARS-CHRISTER. EKSTROM HYDEN (ANNA. REZA MAJLESI, ALI.),Anna Ekström,Ali Reza Majlesi

This book investigates how people living with late-stage dementia can engage in communication and social interaction. Based on empirical research, it explores the remaining communicative resources of people living with cognitive impairment (e.g., intercorporeal interaction, bodily gestures, gaze), presenting the agency of the person with dementia as an integral part of their relations with others. The book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework for analyzing, describing, and understanding communication in late-stage dementia, and explores the use of video ethnography to record and analyze non-verbal, bodily interaction. The authors skilfully bring together findings from their examinations of everyday interactions involving individuals living with late-stage dementia in nursing facilities, introducing the readers to the innovative theoretical and methodological approaches that undergird the fine-grained analyses at the heart of the book. The rich and nuanced case studies collected encompass embodied directives, habitual actions and objects, physical settings, assisted eating, and much more. An invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers at all levels in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, social work, nursing, gerontology, and related disciplines, this volume makes an unparalleled contribution to current dementia research across the social sciences. Lars-Christer Hydén is Professor in Social Psychology at Linköping University, Sweden. His research concerns how people living with dementia engage in social interaction using multimodal communicative resources as a way to sustain and negotiate everyday life and a sense of self. Anna Ekström is Associate Professor in Speech-Language Pathology and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at Linköping University, Sweden. A qualitative methods expert, her research focuses on populations with communicative impairments, including people with dementia. During the last ten years, she has continuously published within the field of dementia studies. Ali Reza Majlesi is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. He conducts research on social interaction in everyday and institutional settings, involving participants with various cognitive and communicative abilities. His research focuses on embodiment and sense-making practices in social activities, encompassing face-to-face or mediated interactions. .

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Springer Nature

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3031568702

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9783031568701

Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics

From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad

By: Ali Rahnema

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Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics

From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad

By: Ali Rahnema

A superstitious reading of the world based on religion may be harmless at a private level, yet employed as a political tool it can have more sinister implications. As this fascinating book by Ali Rahnema, a distinguished Iranian intellectual, relates, superstition and mystical beliefs have endured and influenced ideology and political strategy in Iran from the founding of the Safavid dynasty in the sixteenth century to the present day. As Rahnema demonstrates through a close reading of the Persian sources and with examples from contemporary Iranian politics, it is this supposed connectedness to the hidden world that has allowed leaders such as Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mahmud Ahmadinejad to present themselves and their entourage as representatives of the divine, and their rivals as the embodiment of evil.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139495623

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9781139495622

Shi'i Reformation in Iran

The Life and Theology of Shari’at Sangelaji

By: Ali Rahnema

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Shi'i Reformation in Iran

The Life and Theology of Shari’at Sangelaji

By: Ali Rahnema

Shi 'ism caught the attention of the world as Iran experienced her revolution in 1979 and was subsequently cast in the mold of a monolithic discourse of radical political Islam. The spokespersons of Shi'i Islam, in or out of power, have not been the sole representatives of the faith. Nonconformist and uncompromising, the Shi’i jurist and reformist Shari’at Sangelaji (1891-1944) challenged certain popular Shi’i beliefs and the mainstream clerical establishment, guarding and propagating it. In Shi'i Reformation in Iran, Ali Rahnema offers a fresh understanding of Sangelaji’s reformist discourse from a theological standpoint, and takes readers into the heart of the key religious debates in Iran in the 1940s. Exploring Sangelaji’s life, theological position and disputations, Rahnema demonstrates that far from being change resistant, debates around why and how to reform the faith have long been at the heart of Shi’i Islam. Drawing on the writings and sermons of Sangelaji, as well as interviews with his son, the book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the reformist’s ideas. As such it offers scholars of religion and Middle Eastern politics alike a penetrating insight into the impact that these ideas have had on Shi’ism - an impact which is still felt today.

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Routledge

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1317055330

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9781317055334

The Political History of Modern Iran

Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present

By: Ali Rahnema

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The Political History of Modern Iran

Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present

By: Ali Rahnema

From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its high hopes, broken promises, repression and intolerance causing national discontent and another socio-political upheaval today, the history of modern Iran has been eventful, unstable and turbulent. In this textbook, Ali Rahnema draws on his experience teaching and researching on modern Iran to render one hundred years of modern Iranian politics and history into easy-to-follow episodic chapters. Step by step, and taking a chronological approach, students are given the core information, analysis, and critical assessment to understand the flow of contemporary Iranian history. This is a comprehensive and exhaustive guide for undergraduate and graduate level courses on modern Iranian history and politics. The textbook is complete with the following pedagogical features: * An initial chapter on how to study Iranian history and how to approach historiography * Images of key individuals discussed in each chapter * Text boxes throughout to highlight key episodes, concepts, and ideas *Three types of exam questions; factual and analytical, seminar, and discussion at the end of each chapter * Glossaries at the end of each chapter *A comprehensive timeline Topics covered include: party formations; the flourishing of the press; the expansion or reduction of political and civil rights; repression and human right abuses; foreign intervention and influence; obsessions over conspiracies; the influence of Western ideologies, the role of nationalism, cultural and historical Persian chauvinism; and Shi'i Islam and competing Shiisms.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755644018

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9780755644018

Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Political Islam

Hizbullah's Institutional Identity

By: Mohanad Hage Ali

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Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Political Islam

Hizbullah's Institutional Identity

By: Mohanad Hage Ali

This book sheds light on how Hizbullah has transformed religious rituals and supernatural narratives in order to mobilize the Shi’a community. The author examines how Hizbullah has altered its institutional structure and reconstructed Lebanese Shi’a history in a manner similar to that of nationalist movements. Through fieldwork and research, the project finds that Hizbullah has centralized around the concept of Wilayat al-Fagih (Gaurdianship of the Islamic Jurists): in essence, the absolute authority of Iran’s Supreme Leader over the Shi’a “nation.”

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Springer

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3319604260

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9783319604268

Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics

From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad

By: Ali Rahnema

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Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics

From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad

By: Ali Rahnema

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Book's by Ali Reza Majlesi

Living with Late-Stage Dementia

Living with Late-Stage Dementia

Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics

Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics

Shi'i Reformation in Iran

Shi'i Reformation in Iran

The Political History of Modern Iran

The Political History of Modern Iran

Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Political Islam

Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Political Islam

Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics

Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics

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