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Persian Sphinx, Persian Edition
Amir Abbas Hoveyda & the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
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Who lost Iran How and why did a country, never richer, never more educated, its women never more liberated erupt in a fundamentalist revolution The answer can be found in the enthralling life and tragic death of one man. Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitanism against Persian isolationism, secularism against religious fundamentalism, and ultimately civil society and democracy against authoritarianism. The Persian Sphinx is biography at its most powerful and reads like a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy. It will reward the general reader and the scholar alike. Text in Persian.
Abbas Milani was raised in Iran and sent to be educated in California in the 1960s. He became politically active and in 1974 received a PhD in Political Science. He returned to Tehran and taught at the National University but was imprisoned by the Pahlavi regime in 1977. After the revolution he became a professor at Tehran University, but by 1986 his utopian illusions had been shattered and he emigrated to the United States. Dr. Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian studies at Stanford University and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His works include, Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir, The Persian Sphinx: Amir-Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, and a translation of Houshang Golshiris King of the Benighted.
- ISBN-13
- 9781933823034
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers
- Imprint
- Mage Publishers Inc (US)
- Publication date
- 1 November 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 564
- Dimensions
- 155 x 230 mm
- Illustrations
- b/w photos
- Language
- Persian
