 Kafi is Kafi
From Abbas Milani's new book
February 5, 2004
iranian.com
One of the really nice things about having a web
site like this is the free books authors send as review copies.
Just last week I received a gem -- a book I'll be recommending
to everybody who wants to know what makes us tick: Abbas Milani's, "Lost
Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran" (2004, Mage Publishers).
When I first opened the book, "Kafi is Kafi:
Textual Sources of Shia Fundamentalism" caught my attention.
I was curious to know what are the theological foundations of Iran's
ruling clergy. I think you'll be just as amazed as I was when you
read >>> "Kafi
is Kafi"
I hardly ever read books. But I'm looking at the
essay titles and they are mighty tempting:
-- Sa'di & The Kings: A Twelfth Century Source of
Modernity
-- Nasir al-Din Shah in Farang: Perspectives of an Oriental Despot
-- Tehran and Modernity: Ja'far Shahri's Personal Odyssey
-- Hedayat & The Tragic Vision: Resisting Modernity
-- King of Shadows: Ebrahim Golestan and the Question of Modernity
-- Modernity & Shahrnush Parsipur's Blue Logos: Rediscovering
the Feminine
-- ...
I think this is going to be one of the best books
I've ever read. -- Jahanshah Javid ***
Abbas Milani is currently a visiting professor of
political science at Stanford University and a research fellow
at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. he has been
Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Notre
Dame de Namur University since 1987. He has written and published
extensively on Iran’s encounter with modernity. His books
include The
Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle
of the Iranian Revolution, Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir,
and a translation of King of the Benighted, a novella by Houshang
Golshiri.
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