'ali Shari'ati and the Shaping of Political Islam in Iran - Hardcover

by K. Chatterjee (Author)

This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy.

Author Biography

Kingshuk Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Calcutta University.