Ahmad Kasrawî: Ein Beitrag zur Ideengeschichte persieens im 20. Jahrhundert.

Very Good German Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In German. [6], [iii], [1], 282 p. Ahmad Kasrawî: Ein Beitrag zur Ideengeschichte persieens im 20. Jahrhundert. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philosophischen Fakultaten der Albert-Ludwigs-Universit7at zu Freiburg i. Br. Ahmad Kasrawî: A contribution to the intellectual history of Persia in the 20th century. Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946) was a notable Iranian linguist, historian, nationalist and reformer. Born in Hokmabad (Hohmavar), Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azeri. Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Later, he joined the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He experienced a sort of conversion to Western learning when he learned that the comet of 1910 had been identified as a reappearance of Halley's comet. He abandoned his clerical training after this event and enrolled in the American Memorial School of Tabriz. Thenceforward he became, in Roy Mottahedeh's words, "a true anti-cleric. Kasravi was associated with the Democrat Party in Iran. He was a professor of law at University of Tehran and also a lawyer in Tehran, Iran. He was the founder of a political-social movement whose goal was to build an Iranian secular identity. The movement was formed during Pahlavi dynasty. He has authored more than 70 books, mostly in Persian language. The most important ones are "History of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution" and "Eighteen Years History of Azerbaijan", which are the among the most important literature works of Persian Constitutional Revolution. In the book "Azeri or the Historical Language of Azerbaijan", he brought up the idea that the language of Iranian Azerbaijan and Republic of Azerbaijan had been Old Azeri, an Iranian language, before being replaced by a Turkic language which is called Azerbaijani language today. (Source: Wikipedia).