Lost Wisdom
Subtitle: Rethinking Modernity in Iran
Publisher: Mage Publishers
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780934211901
Subjects: Asian studies; Islamic modernism; Iran; Archaeology / Anthropology; Islamic fundamentalism; Middle East - Iran; Anthropology - General; Intellectual life; Islam and politics
First sentence: Some twenty-five hundred years ago, when Herodotus was writing his Histories, Iran, or Persia as it was called then, was the West's ultimate "other."