ABSTRACT
The founders and some members of the Iran Freedom Movement have written widely, mainly on topics related to Islam. Ayatollah Taleqani’s and Bazargan’s works are the most important writings by the members of the group. Ayatollah Motahari, a leading Islamic writer and philosopher, assassinated in 1980, believed that the two were the vanguards of introducing Islam to the new generation of Iranians.179 While Taleqani endeavoured deeply to re-examine the Koran and other religious texts, Bazargan tried to utilize new sciences, in which he was educated, in his approach to Islam. In this book, as said before, I focus only on Bazargan’s works, since they are more representative of the views of the Iran Freedom Movement. It should, nevertheless, be remembered that neither Taleqani’s nor Bazargan’s works were presented as the ideology of the Movement, but rather as attempts at providing a new approach to Islam, in order to attract the new generation of educated Iranians to the religion. Many of their writings, as a matter of fact, were published before the formation of the group.
