Editing Ali Shari’ati (section)

==Ideas==
Shari’ati formulated an Islamic ''Weltanschauung'' in his most celebrated book ''Islam-shenasi'' (Islamology), published in 1969. He identified a dynamic and progressive “true Islam” of [[Ali ibn Abi Talib|Imam Ali]] (''Alavid [[Shiʿism|Shi’ism]]'') and distinguished it from the petrified institutionalized Islam of the clergy (''Safavid Islam''). Through a revisionist genealogy of Islamic concepts and ideas, he articulated a philosophy of history and social change that he believed would appeal to young modern Iranian

intellectuals. He conceived his Islamic ''Weltanschauung'' as a counter hegemonic ideology against the “trinity of oppression”— the economic power of capitalism, the coercive political power of monarchy, and the cultural dominance of the ''Safavid Islam''.