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Summary Of Roxanne Varzi's Warring Souls
In chapter eight of Warring Souls, Roxanne Varzi examines the Islamic Republic of Iran, and suggests that the dominating identity of Iran is evolving from a religious national one, into an Iranian national identity. This leads me the possibility that the monolithic Islamic identity of Iran may not have to power to last. Personally, I agree with Varzi’s stance on this shift in the Iranian government’s focus, and I think her argument is strengthened by her discoveries about the Iranian youth. She proposes the narrative that Islamic democracy only works as an idea, when it is able to equally incorporate secular and Islamic identities. By incorporating the viewpoints of the Iranian youth, she reinforces the ideas that religion and politics should
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