[PDF.74vh] Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran

Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran

[PDF.kt95] Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran

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 | #770959 in Books |  2014-09-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.40 x5.98l,.57 | File type: PDF | 172 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| LOST WISDOM|By kambiz B|Lost wisdom
Rethinking Modernity in Iran
Dr. Abbas Milani in his book, in a collection of several essays written since 1991, embarks to dislodge the Islamist main argument against modernity in Iran which they proclaim modernity is the pretax of western foreigners for colonial and cultural domination. Dr. Milani, himself a product of modernity i| |"Milani shows that long before the European Renaissance generated the radical ideas that eventually reshaped Europe and the United States, Persian statesmen, artists, and intellectuals had formulated ideas that strikingly anticipate those of modernity.... Lost

In the essays collected here, Abbas Milani uses an impressive array of cross-disciplinary Western and Iranian theories and texts to investigate the crucial question of modernity in Iran today. He offers a wealth of new insights into the thousand-year-old conflict in Iran between the search for modernity and the forces of religious obscurantism. The essays trace the roots of Shiite Islamic fundamentalism and offer illuminating accounts of the work of Iranian intellectuals...

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