Shadman's diaries / Fakhr al-Diin Shadman ; Persian text edited with a preface by Abbas Milani & Kioumars Ghereghlou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shādmān, Fakhr al-Dīn, 1907 or 1908-1967 or 1968, author.

Contributor:

Milani, Abbas, editor, writer of preface.

Ghereghlou, Kioumars, editor, writer of preface.

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--Iran--Diaries.

Intellectuals.

Intellectual life.

Politics and government.

Shādmān, Fakhr al-Dīn, 1907 or 1908-1967 or 1968--Diaries.

Shādmān, Fakhr al-Dīn.

Iran--Intellectual life--20th century.

Iran.

Iran--Politics and government--20th century.

Genre:

Diaries

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D. C.?] : Mage Persian Editions, [2023]-

Language Note:

Editors' preface in English, diary in Persian.

Summary:

This is the first of a projected six-volume collection, covering four turbulent decades of Iran's history. The twelve original handwritten notebooks begin in 1926 with Shadman's days as a cleric and end in 1966 shortly before his death. In between is a rich tapestry of accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, accounts of dreams, cultural and political history, anecdotes, and telling details about the country's changing history of manners, all from the astute perspective of Shadman. Seyyed Fakhr al-Din Shadman was born in Tehran in 1907 to a family whose economic comfort came from the inherited wealth of the mother, and whose tolerant piety came from the father, a cleric both forbearing and fervent in his religious beliefs. Fakhr al-Din went from a traditional school (maktab) to a high school, on to a teacher's college and finally to the Faculty of Law, where in 1927 he received his law degree. By then he was fluent in Arabic, French, and English. After several years of teaching and tutoring in Iran and working as a journalist and an editor at a leftist publication, and after working in the newly established Ministry of Justice, Shadman left for Europe. He spent seventeen years abroad, mostly in England, working for the Iranian government as its representative in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Com-pany (AIOC). He also continued his education and received two doctoral degrees-one from the University of Paris in 1935 in Law and Political Science, and another in 1939 from the London School of Economics in History.The diaries bring to light not only a detailed account of why the early generation of intellectuals advocating modernity joined the Pahlavi project and how almost all of them were sidelined, but also how Shadman used his diaries for literary experimentation and private self expression. The contours of Shadman's eventful and consequential life are covered in detail in his daily journals."--Volume 1, back cover.

Contents:

Volume 1. The odyssey of a young cleric, 1926-1928

volume 2. In pursuit of western civilization, 1933-1943

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781949445404

1949445402

9781949445893

1949445895

OCLC:

1512846441

Publisher Number:

90102019328