Informed by eyewitness testimony, the foremost account of Iran’s 1979 Revolution and its impact today
Roy P. Mottahedeh was the Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He served as the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard from 1987 to 1990 and as Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard from 2006 to 2011. Oneworld has also published In the Shadow of the Prophet: Essays in Islamic History and his translation of Muhammad Baqir As-Sadr's Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence.
'A remarkable treasure.' Wall Street Journal
'Mottahedeh has written an intellectual history as stirring and
graceful as any novel. He sets the intimate biography of a young
cleric against the vast epic of Iranian thought from Zoroaster to
Avicenna, Kasravi to Khomeini. The Mantle of the Prophet is
literary, learned, and deeply felt; the writing is splendid, and
the story is an education for the Western reader unaware of the
powerful tides of Shi’ite and Persian thought over a period of
centuries.' The New Yorker
'Mottahedeh has drawn on a massive amount of learning, but he has
got the scholarly apparatus out of the way and made his book
accessible to a wide audience.'
*New York Times Book Review*
'He has a sharp feeling for the sensous aspects of the traditional
Iranian town - the texture of bricks and tiles, the movement of
breezes, the sound of the side alley, the precious burst of
greenery and of trees.'
*The Times Literary Supplement*
"The beauty of [Mottahedeh’s] book is in his ability to explain
sophisticated ideas and difficult subjects in a way which is widely
accessible… an extraordinary book."
*London Review of Books*
"One of the top 75 books of the twentieth century"
*Foreign Affairs*
"The graceful prose and factual command… make [this book] a
fascinating read."
*San Francisco Chronicle*
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