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 , 2018Description: X, 361 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

978-1-108-44997-7

Subject(s):

Subject: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monografías	Biblioteca Central del MAEC Depósito	59593	Available		1075294

Bibliografía: p. 331-354

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