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By Ali Gheissari

Since the center of the 19th century, Iranian intellectuals were preoccupied via problems with political and social reform, Iran's relation with the trendy West, and autocracy, or arbitrary rule. Drawing from a detailed studying of a extensive array of fundamental assets, this booklet bargains a thematic account of the Iranian intelligentsia from the Constitutional stream of 1905 to the post-1979 revolution.

Ali Gheissari indicates how in Iran, as in lots of different nations, intellectuals were the major mediators among the forces of culture and modernity and feature contributed considerably to the formation of the trendy Iranian self snapshot. His research of intellectuals' reaction to a few primary questions, corresponding to nationalism, id, and the relation among Islam and smooth politics, sheds new mild at the components that ended in the Iranian Revolution—the 20th century's first significant departure from Western political ideals—and is helping clarify the complexities surrounding the reception of Western ideologies within the center East.

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