Iran: Politics, History and Literature
Iran: Politics, History and Literature written by Homa Katouzian offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine.
Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state. The book explained and analyzed the reasons why neither of two revolutions succeeded in their lofty ideals.
The author also offers a detailed description of Iran’s short-term society, examining the political and intellectual lives of two of the most remarkable intellectuals-cum-politicians of the twentieth century. This book provides an overview of modern Persian literature, both poetry and prose, and discusses the works of three of the most remarkable Persian poets and writers of the period. It considers classical Persian literature through the great variety of its form and substance, and neo-classical literary developments in the nineteenth century, covering the whole history of Persian literature.
Iran: Politics, History and Literature will be of interest to students and scholars of Iranian studies and Middle East Politics.
Homa Katouzian is Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow at St Antony’s College and Member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
(Source: Routledge)