StarAstrologer - Books : The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 955.053
EAN: 9781851682348
ISBN: 1851682341
Label: Oneworld Publications
Manufacturer: Oneworld Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: August 25, 2000
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Sales Rank: 70191
Studio: Oneworld Publications
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Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eye-witnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's gripping account of Islam and politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of that turbulent time ever written. Roy Mottahedeh is Gurney professor of Islamic History at Harvard University. An internationallly renowned expert, he has published extensively in this field and his academic awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Prize Fellowship.
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This book had no focus, was choppy, and really doesn't help you to understand Iran - if anything, it confuses you even more. The first half of the chapters is the story of Ali Hashemi, a young Iranian boy who studies at a madreseh and eventually becomes a prominent mullah in the town of Qom. Not fantastic, but that part's okay. What kills the book is the second half of the chapters: a sloppy, unfocused, confusing, rambling account of Iranian history. The book goes into such detail on some aspects ... Read More
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This book failed to provided Khomenie's life. Another point that this book was super exaggerating Ali's mother breathfeeding. According to the author every time before breathfeeding her son she was water purifying {vozou}. A child is breathfeed more than three times a day.
Last point that the book made which was interesting that 1979 revolution was for socioeconomic reason and after success of revolution the socioeconomic was remained unresolve.
This book has good points with ... Read More
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Trust me. I've read them all, and this one's the worst.
A history book thinly disguised as a novel, this book reads at the pace of molasses sliding down a 3-degree incline. The story "centers" around Ali, a fictional character placed in a historical context. However, only a few pages of each chapter actually relates to him. The majority of the book is a bewildered exploration of tangential facts. Every now and then Mottahedeh will simply say, "Oh, by the way, all the information you could ... Read More
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Though deliberate in its pace and what I might call dry in tone, I believe this book, which I read over the summer, masterfully reveals the real Iran as it was in the last two decades of the twentieth-century, and gives the best insights I've yet found into that nation today: a country founded on the principles of a blood-soaked revolution. Forget what you hear on the evening news, read this book and approach Iranian culture with an open mind. I think you'll be startled, as I was, at much of what you learn. ... Read More
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The Mantle of Prophet is an interesting novel written in the context of Iranian history, religion, and politics. I would say pretty balanced description of the Iran today, I enjoyed that alot, except in the discussion of last fifty years, the author focused more on Jalal Ahmed, who undoubtly did good contribution, and other 'liberal' intelligentsia and neglected to give proper place to Khomeini, Mutahhari, and Shariati's ideas and role, in all, the role of the religious intelligentsia. I also wanted to see ... Read More
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