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Both Eastern and Western : an intellectual history of Iranian modernity / Afshin Matin-Asgari

By: Matin-Asgari, Afshin, (1955-)Publication details: Cambridge [U.S.A.] : Cambridge University Press , 2018 Description: X, 361 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 978-1-108-44997-7Subject(s): Situación política | Identidad cultural | Aspectos sociales | Religión y política | Historia de Irán | IránSubject: Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result, analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution has become subsumed by this narrative. Here, Afshin Matin-Asgari proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history, challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historiography and offering a new narration
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Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result, analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution has become subsumed by this narrative. Here, Afshin Matin-Asgari proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history, challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historiography and offering a new narration

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