Lost Wisdom
Subtitle: Rethinking Modernity in Iran
Publisher: Mage Publishers
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780934211895
Subjects: Asian studies; Social Science; Islam and politics; Sociology; Iran; Sociology of Religion; Ethnic Studies - General; Intellectual life; Islamic fundamentalism; Islamic modernism
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."