Download or read book Iranian Intellectuals and the West written by Mehrzad Boroujerdi and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These intellectuals (both religious and secular) appropriated Islam as the vehicle through which they could most effectively challenge or accommodate modernity and Westernization. Through such a fitting appropriation, Boroujerdi asserts, could modern Iranian thinkers lay the foundation for a nativist vision of an unsullied culture, seemingly free of Western influence.