Lost Wisdom
October 24th, 2007
This is the title of a book I’m reading by an Iranian author called Abbas Milani who is based in the US.
The sub-title is “Rethinking Modernity in Iran” – the book deals with the history of Iran and how/why Iran and its people rejected modernism (I’m learning about this!) even though the Persian empire around 2000 years ago embraced modernism and set forth an example which was followed by the Greco-Roman thinkers.
I’ve only covered the first 2 chapters and I can say right now that I’ll need to re-read it to fully understand some of the passages.
Think I’ll write more on this in the near future.
Over and out.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Hi!
October 26th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Hi Kamangir! This is a very nice surprise. I’m a fan of your blog. Great stuff!