Review of Saffari, S. (2017). Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought. London and New York: Cambridge University press. 256 pp. $99.99, ISBN: 9781107164161" UNEDITED VERSION FOR JOURNAL OF Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online (MEMBR) Questions pertaining to the conceptual relationship between Islam and modernity -and therefore between cultural relativism and (hegemonic) universalism- continue to occupy the minds of scholars of contemporary/modern Islam and/or Muslim societies. The book under review examines the thought and legacy of Ali Shari’ati ( d.1977) , famously dubbed an ‘ideologue of the Iranian Revolution’ and what are broadly termed ‘neo-Shari’atis’ ( i.e. Shariati’s intellectual interlocutors) through this broad theoretical lens. In essence in many ways the book under review wishes to problematize the preponderant view of Islam’s (supposed) incompatibility with modernity by examining the ideas of Ali Shari’a