Description
Shahrokh Meskoob was an Iranian writer and intellectual, who was born in Babol, on the Caspian coast, in 1924 and died in Paris in 2005. Imprisoned in the mid-1950s for leftist activities, he was forced to leave the country following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, after publishing two critical articles in the Ayandegan newspaper in Tehran.
Meskoob's literary analysis of the Shahnameh and the poetry of Hafez, and his book Iranian National Identity and the Persian Language, all translated into English, demonstrate his view that national identity meant cultural identity and that modernity in Iran should be based upon an understanding of the best of Iranian culture.
This book celebrates Meskoob's life and work in eight essays by prominent Iranian scholars and in a selection of facsimiles of his papers, now archived at Stanford University.
Author: Abbas Milani
Publisher: Mage Publishers
Published: 03/21/2022
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781949445343
ISBN10: 1949445348
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Middle Eastern
- History | Middle East | Iran
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | Academic & Scholarly
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