Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

by Ali Gheissari

Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Iranian intellectuals have been preoccupied by issues of political and social reform, Iran's relation with the modern West, and autocracy, or arbitrary rule. Drawing from a close reading of a broad array of primary sources, this book offers a thematic account of the Iranian intelligentsia from the Constitutional movement of 1905 to the post-1979 revolution.

Ali Gheissari shows how in Iran, as in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292728042
• ISBN13: 9780292728042
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"