Nun va Al-Qalam

by Jalal Al Ahmad

Jalal Al Ahmad (1923-62) was a prolific writer; he published his first novel in 1945. Al Ahmad wrote five major collections of short stories, three novels, and an essay. The themes of the collections are diverse. Prominent among them, however, are the superstitious beliefs of the common people, recorded in their own language; excesses of the clergy in their exploitation of the visible aspects of the religion instead of devotion to the teachings and the dogma; and intrusion of western ideas into Iran's predominantly Shi'ite ideology.

196 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008