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The contributors of this book undertake a fundamental reexamination and reappraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran.

This book describes the life and works of Ayatollah Murtaza Mutahhari the philosopher, jurist, preacher and writer, who was educated in the Qum Seminary and worked in Tehran.

Contains the detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian history and politics, both modern and traditional. Here, each chapter is a study of its own specific topics while being a part of the whole argument.

A study of the history of Iranian anthropology that charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. It examines how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses in Iran, and how they were appropriated, and rejected, by the pre- and post-revolutionary regimes.