Pedersen, Claus V.
World View in Pre-Revolutionary Iran

Literary Analysis of Five Iranian Authors in the Context of the History of Ideas.

The exemplary analyses of short stories by Seyyed Mohammad Al Jamalzadeh, Sadeq Hedayat Sadeq Chubak, Jamal A-le Ahmad, and Husang Golshiri are contextualized by the presentation of the four Iranian thinkers and ideologists Jamal al-Din Afghani (1838-1897), Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946), Seyyed Hoseyn Nasr (b. 1933), and Ali Shariati (1933-1977). The book does not attempt to explain the revolution and the theocrasy it resulted in, but takes interest in the modes of thought (world views) that preceded the revolution in order to understand the cultural context in which the revolution happened. IX,221 Seiten, broschiert (Mîzân; Band 10/Harrassowitz Verlag 2002)