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Qajari Social Contract: An English translation and Persian edition of Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani's 'Takvin va Tashri'

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This volume presents the Persian edition and the first-ever English translations of Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani's Takvin va Tashri (Genesis and Canonical Lawgiving).

Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani (1854-1896) was an Iranian intellectual, philosopher and secular nationalist whose iconoclastic ideas about modernisation and opposition to the Qajar monarchy would be taken up during the Constitutional Revolution and by later thinkers such as Ahmad Kasravi. In this book, Kermani argues for an evolutionary und...