چكيده لاتين :
"Islam, Tradition, and Modem State", written by Seyyed
Ali Mir-Mousavi, is to deconstruct Shiite Ijtihad through
discourse analysis, perform a typological study of Shiite
political thought, and discuss the factors of incompatibility
between the traditional political thought and the
requirements of modem states. The most important
criticisms are related to methodologies applied in this book:
using inconsistent and incompatible methods, their incorrect
application to Muslim scholars such as Al-Jahiz, and finally
the inappropriate use of these methods. According the
discourse analysis, there can be different readings based on
different conditions and not all can be used simultaneously.
In addition, discourse analysis is not compatible.
Concerning the content of the book, too, classifying the
discourses into traditional, reformist, and critical and some
of the references in the book need to be considered
seriously.
