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Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran
by
Abbas Milani
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 o...more
Paperback, 164 pages
Published
March 28th 2004
by Mage Publishers
(first published March 2004)
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excerpts from academis essays and analysis on famous Persian scholars. Milani has plenty of insight intp politics, Iranian psche, art and post-modern Iran in this medley of essays.
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Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. In addition, Dr. Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.
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