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The Israeli republic : Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Islam, and the Jewish state / Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Simin Daneshvar ; translated from the Persian by Samuel Thrope, with essays by Samuel Thrope and Bernard Avishai.
- Title
- The Israeli republic : Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Islam, and the Jewish state / Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Simin Daneshvar ; translated from the Persian by Samuel Thrope, with essays by Samuel Thrope and Bernard Avishai.
- Author
- Āl Aḥmad, Jalāl
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- 186 pages; 19 cm
- Summary
- "Written by a preeminent Iranian writer who helped lay the popular groundwork for the Iranian Revolution, The Israeli Republic should be required reading for anyone interested in the history and current political landscape of the Middle East. Documenting Jalal Al-e Ahmad's two-week-long trip to Israel in February of 1963, his account "Journey to the Land of Israel" caused a firestorm when it was published in Iran, upsetting the very revolutionary clerics whose anti-Western sentiments Al-e Ahmad himself had fueled. Yet, in the thriving Jewish State, Jalal Al-e Ahmad saw a model for a possible future Iran. Based on his controversial travelogue, supplemented with letters between the author and his wife, Simin Daneshvar (the first major Iranian woman novelist), and translated into English for the first time by Samuel Thrope, The Israeli Republic is a record of Al-e Ahmad's idealism, insight, and ultimate disillusionment towards Israel. Vibrantly modern in its sensibility and fearlessly polemical, this book will change the way you think about the Middle East."--Page 4 of cover.
- Alternative Title
- Iranian revolutionary's journey to the Jewish state
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Records and correspondence
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183).
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Persian.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / by Samuel Thrope -- Among the believers : what Jalal Al-e Ahmad thought Iranian Islamism could learn from Zionism / by Bernard Avishai -- The Israeli republic -- Notes on selected correspondence / by Samuel Thrope -- Selected correspondence between Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Simin Daneshvar, 1962-1963.
- ISBN
- 9781632061393
- 1632061392
- OCLC
- 961874646
- SCSB-11418939
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library