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James Buchan: An Iranian Revolutionary, 15 October 1998
An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati
by Ali Rahnema.
Tauris, 418 pp., £39.50, August 1998,1 86064 118 0 Show More
by Ali Rahnema.
Tauris, 418 pp., £39.50, August 1998,
“... what happened in Iran. The Muslim insurgents known as the People’s Mujahedin, Mehdi Bazargan and Ali Shari‘ati, the subject of the biography under review, made Islam palatable to a generation of young Iranians and thus delivered them up to a clergy with a long list of unfinished business. To borrow a phrase from another revolution, they were the useful ... ”