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| Books LLC : Iranian Sociologists: Ali Shariati, Asef Bayat, Amir-Hossein Aryanpour, Ehsan Naraghi, Mahmoud Sadri | |
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Iranian Sociologists: Ali Shariati, Asef Bayat, Amir-Hossein Aryanpour, Ehsan Naraghi, Mahmoud Sadri |
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English |
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Paperback |
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26 |
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2010-06-21 |
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1158404360 |
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Books LLC |
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0.11 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.04 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ali Shariati (Persian: ) (, 1933 in Kahak - 1977 in Southampton, England) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution' . Ali Shariati was born in 1933 in Kahak (a village in Mazinan), a suburb of Sabzevar, found in northeastern Iran. His father, Mohammad-Taqi, was a teacher and Islamic scholar, who opened in 1947 the 'Centre for the Propagation of Islamic Truths' in Mashhad, in the province of Khorasan , a social Islamic forum which became embroiled in the oil nationalisation movement of the 1950's. In his years at the Teacher's Training College in Mashhad, Shariati came into contact with young people who were from the less privileged economic classes of the society, and for the first time saw the poverty and hardship that existed in Iran during that period. At the same time he was exposed to many aspects of Western philosophical and political thought. He attempted to explain and provide solutions for the problems faced by Muslim societies through traditional Islamic principles interwoven with and understood from the point of view of modern sociology and philosophy. His articles from this period for the Mashhad daily newspaper, Khorasan, display his developing eclecticism and acquaintance with the ideas of modern Islamic and extra-Islamic thinkers such as Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Iqbal, Sigmund Freud and Alexis Carrel. In 1952 he became a high-school teacher and founded the Islamic Students' Association, which led to his arrest after a demonstration. In 1953, the year of Mossadeq's overthrow, he became a member of the National Resi... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=159182
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