Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century(English, Paperback, Gheissari Ali)

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Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century(English, Paperback, Gheissari Ali) is written by Gheissari Ali and published by University of Texas Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0292728042 (ISBN 10) and 9780292728042 (ISBN 13).

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 many other countries, intellectuals have been the prime mediators between the forces of tradition and modernity and have contributed significantly to the formation of the modern Iranian self image. His analysis of intellectuals' response to a number of fundamental questions, such as nationalism, identity, and the relation between Islam and modern politics, sheds new light on the factors that led to the Iranian Revolution-the twentieth century's first major departure from Western political ideals-and helps explain the complexities surrounding the reception of Western ideologies in the Middle East.