{"title":"Fakhr Al-Din Shadman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"shadman-s-diaries-book-fakhr-al-din-shadman-9781949445404","title":"Shadman's Diaries","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ethis is the first of a projected six-volume collection, covering four turbulent decades of Iran's history.\u003c\/strong\u003e The twelve original handwritten notebooks begin in 1926 with Shadman's days as a cleric and end in 1966 shortly before his death. In between is a rich tapestry of accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, accounts of dreams, cultural and political history, anecdotes, and telling details about the country's changing history of manners, all from the astute perspective of Shadman. Seyyed Fakhr al-Din Shadman was born in Tehran in 1907 to a family whose economic comfort came from the inherited wea-lth of the mother, and whose tolerant piety came from the father, a cleric both forbearing and fervent in his religious beliefs. Fakhr al-Din went from a traditional school (\u003cem\u003emaktab\u003c\/em\u003e) to a high school, on to a teacher's college and finally to the Faculty of Law, where in 1927 he received his law degree. By then he was fluent in Arabic, French, and English. After several years of teaching and tutoring in Iran and working as a journalist and an editor at a leftist publication, and after working in the newly established Ministry of Justice, Shadman left for Europe. He spent seventeen years abroad, mostly in England, working for the Iranian government as its representative in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Com-pany (AIOC). He also continued his education and received two doctoral degrees-one from the University of Paris in 1935 in Law and Political Science, and another in 1939 from the London School of Economics in History.The diaries bring to light not only a detailed account of why the early generation of intellectuals advocating modernity joined the Pahlavi project and how almost all of them were sidelined, but also how Shadman used his diaries for literary experimentation and private self expression. The cont-ours of Shadman's eventful and consequential life are covered in detail in his daily journals.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51059654590737,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51059657572625,"sku":"NIN9781949445404","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52679974355217,"sku":"NLS9781949445404","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1949445402.jpg?v=1750805193"},{"product_id":"shadman-diaries-book-fakhr-al-din-shadman-9781949445893","title":"Shadman Diaries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis volume contains nearly a decade of Shadman's diaries, spanning from his departure from Tehran in mid-December 1933 to March 1943\u003c\/strong\u003e - almost two years before the end of his tenure as a delegate of the Imperial Government of Iran with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) in London. During his time in London, Shadman took advantage of academic opportunities by enrolling at the Sorbonne, where he pursued the equivalent of a master's degree in international law. He later continued his studies at the London School of Economics as a graduate student, completing a doctorate in international history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe diaries provide a detailed account of Shadman's activities as a writer, student, and government employee in London during World War II. Shortly after his arrival, he accepted a part-time teaching position as a Persian instructor at the University of London's School of Oriental Studies, where he served as a teaching assistant to Professor Vladimir Minorsky. However, as Nazi air raids brought instability and chaos to London, Shadman relocated to Cambridge, where he met and fell in love with his future wife, Farangis Namazi - the only Iranian female student at Oxford University at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile in Cambridge, Shadman formed a close relationship with Hasan Taqizadeh, the prominent Iranian intellectual, scholar, and politician who, years earlier in 1933, had played a key role in securing Shadman's appointment as an administrative assistant in the Iranian delegation to AIOC. The diaries in this volume conclude with the British and Soviet invasion of Iran in September 1941 and the subsequent downfall of Reza Shah. Less than two years later, Shadman's employment with AIOC ended, and he returned to Tehran with his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52668329525521,"sku":"NLS9781949445893","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756839596305,"sku":"NIN9781949445893","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781949445893.jpg?v=1782873458"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-fakhr-al-din-shadman.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}