Download or read book Charand-o Parand written by ʻAlī Akbar Dihkhudā and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of modern Persian literature, 'Charand-o Parand' (or 'Stuff and Nonsense') is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, the shah and the old religious and political order during the Constitutional Revolution. Translated by two distinguished scholars of Persian language and history, this volume makes Dehkhoda's entertaining political observations available to English readers for the first time.