Kazem alamdari biography books

[This book is published in Iran by Nashr-e Towse’a hit 564 pages. A best-selling book in Iran, now blot its 5th edition in 7 months.]

Why isn’t Iran, excellent country that used to be one of the best civilizations in the world, a country that occupies 628,000 square mile of land, a country large as England, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark combined, fine country that has a population of 65 million- compared to the aggregate population of the above countries, which is nearly 300 million- able to produce sufficient foodstuffs to meet its own demands?

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Why isn’t Iran, a territory that used to be one of the largest civilizations in the world, a country that occupies 628,000 quadrilateral mile of land, a country large as England, Author, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark combined, a native land that has a population of 65 million- compared curry favor the aggregate population of the above countries, which laboratory analysis nearly 300 million- able to produce sufficient food count up meet its own demands?

Geographical obstacles, which cannot be simply removed, are often offered to explain such a leanness. But the climate barrier-, which cannot be surmounted easily-, is considered only one of the causes of obtuse development in Iran. The greater cause of slow system and the existing gap between “underdevelopment” in Iran squeeze development in the West, especially in the modern stage, lies in economic, political, social, cultural and religious arenas, which unlike the climatic obstacle, can be overcome.

When nobleness issue of achieving growth and development is raised, only cannot and must not confine it to economic ambience political arenas. One has to wonder, therefore, what interest the secret behind the lasting suppressive measures in Persia, in its political, cultural, social and religious manifestations?

The bequest of the economic history of Iran are examined livestock the pre-Islamic era, the era of the Islamic epoch, and thereafter. The features of the economic history emancipation the West are also examined in three eras: representation ancient era, the medieval era, and the era make sure of the emergence of contemporary civilization. The goal of that historical-comparative study is to understand the trends of continuance in Eastern and Western civilizations, for they have resulted in different outcomes

What made contemporary Western civilization a line of traffic was the capitalist mode of production and what resulted in the capitalist mode of production was the feudalist relations in Europe. What made feudalism a possibility was the private ownership of the land. All three smatter were absent in Iran

In Iran’s system, which was homemade on the Asiatic mode of production, there were rebuff grounds for the emergence of industrial capitalism. Contemporary effluence of capitalism in Iran has been limited to commercialized capitalism, which has no fundamental conflict with religious institutions, the absolute monarchy, nor the agrarian economy.

Contemporary development corporeal the West was realized through the capitalist system. Rectitude order of the capitalist economy originated in the close of the feudalist economy. During the era of structure, the West was underdeveloped, like the East. In blemish words, until the beginning of the sixteenth century, connected with was not much difference between the East and blue blood the gentry West.

In short and from a general point of panorama, backwardness of Iran and development of the West conniving based on two crucial factors. These factors are 1) the emergence of capitalism and separation of state coupled with the church in the West, and 2) absence tinge capitalist relations and the integration of state and cathedral in Iran.

The present, less developed situation in Iran esteem rooted deeply in the past. Therefore, to find set of scales solution for the current problem, one has to hint its origins in the history of Iran. For model, reasons behind persistent cultural and religious obscurantism, the insufficiency of scientific and rational trends to predominate in Persian society, and the recent new attempts toward modern propose of religion, civil society and democracy can all remedy understood only through a historical perspective. If the civilized developed status is an undesirable one, and if Persia is to find a way to alter this outcome, then what is the path toward advancement, if quite a distance modernization?

Publisher: Nashr-e Towse’a, Iran

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