num_pages: 418
description: Explores the life and career of Ali Shari`ati, who radically combined Marxism and Islam and is considered the ideological father of the 1979 Iranian revolution. His upbringing, student life in Paris, development as a religious and revolutionary thinker, imprisonment, and death in exile are chronicled in detail. The author is a professor of economics at the American U. of Paris. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'Ati
titlecomplete: An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'Ati
genres: Religion, Biography, Politics, Philosophy, Iran, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Islam, History
ratings_count: 141
publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd