Musings of a former chicken

Thanks Fred & anglophile

for great post & Taghizadeh Bio.

payandeh Iran & Iranians

Thanks again,

Fred and benross. Very informative. I felt embaressed how little I knew about Kasravi and Taghizadeh.

You are very kind, Fred, I'll blame it on the system....

Kaaveh

To have a visual idea of the first modern Iranian newspaper, I bring a language study page of Connie Bobroff here.

//128.187.33.4/persian/texts/RogerCasement1.h...

Bijan

Having spent a considerable part of his life in the West; with first hand knowledge of Western scholarly standards in addition to his firm grasp of Persian, Arabic literature and science of the time,  Taghizadeh is among the very first true Alameh, polymaths, Renaissance men. His articles in the famed Kaveh newspaper/magazine, the paper he started around 1914 in Germany, are among the very firsts with what is considered standard for scholarly works, still an alien concept in most of the stuff coming out of the IRR.

Other contributors to Kaveh like Jamalzadeh, Ghazvini, Kazemzadeh, ghanizade , Egbal Ashtiani and pour-davoud are all patriotic giants that are underappreciated greatly.   Unfortunately Taghizadeh is mostly known for the incident that he termed himself as being “Aalat Fe’l”, in Reza Shah’s oil deal. I encourage you to get to know the man’s writings, like Kasravi, his fellow Tabrizi, his writings mostly articles have stood the test of time and are very informative.

With great regrets the Iranian education system is so political that a whole lot of real gems who at one time or another have fallen afoul of power are overlooked and in their place the sycophants are billed as the real thing. So blame it on the system.  

Fred, good post...

see, body, when you take a break from your own usual araajeef and talk about Iran's historical figures, you manage to come up with a good one.

I have heard a lot about Mr. Taghizadeh from my father who was an ardent follower of his. Taghizadeh certainly cut a larger-than-life figure in the recent Iranian history. We owe a lot to his wisdom and political teachings.

Your reference to the Greek versus Indian schools of thought was a bit lame. The world needs both in order to survive and prosper. 

Fred

That tells you how ignorant I am not knowing this gentleman when I so much identify myself with what he says. Thanks for educating me.

For sure I'll search him up and find more about him.

My first blog was on Taqizadeh

Thank you for drawing the public's attention to this exceptionally gifted politician, diplomat and scholar of our contemporary history. When I published my first blog (//iranian.com/main/blog/anglophile/taqiza...) I chose him as the subject of that blog and as you may see, not a single comment, pro or against, was left there - an indication of our ignorance about our recent history. Sadly there are no such legendary figures around these days. The current bunch who rule Iran are light years away from reaching his status.

Taqizadeh's biography:

//natali123.persianblog.ir/post/86