Author: Seyyed Mostafa Taghavi Moqqaddam

Date of Publication: first print, 2005

Print run: 1500 copies

Number of pages: 512

Price: 4000 Tuman

From the text of the book:

“... It seems that reality of Iranian society in that period was that it did not want west based modernity, not even an Islamic government under the leadership of the religious authorities. As a matter of fact, the requirements of any society in any period are resultants of historical grounds and experiences, social structure, its potentials and its attitude towards culture, politics and economics and in some case the international situation. In other words, there is a sort of correspondence between the societies and social structures on one hand and their political requirements on the other hand. And sociologically, no society can require anything incompatible with its identity...”