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Loading... The Mantle of the Prophet: religion and politics in Iranby Roy Mottahedeh
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An accessible and engaging read. ( ) A long winded way to begin to understand modern day Iran. Tells the history mostly from the point of view of those in the religious establishment. Your heart will go out to Iran as you read it. It is not outdated. I read this to learn more after reading All the Shah's Men. If you want to get inside the Iranian head this is a great start.
One book, however, has always stood out: Harvard University Professor Roy Mottahedeh’s Mantle of the Prophet. It might be 30 years old, but it is the only book that takes the reader inside the mind of an ayatollah.....The true strength of Mantle is how smoothly Mottahedeh transitions from the biographical sketch to sidebars about shopping in a Persian bazaar, Islamic philosophy, and Iranian history. It’s not a political book, and it’s not going to detail the contemporary Iranian leadership’s embrace of terrorism or the details of a covert nuclear program. Nevertheless, more than any other work out there, it goes deepest into the mindset of the ayatollahs and the factors and philosophy which has shaped their thinking.
Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's account of Islam and politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one the best records ofd that turbulent time ever written. No library descriptions found.
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