{"product_id":"the-basil-that-enlightens-the-garden","title":"The Basil that Enlightens the Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eNumerous books and articles have been written about the life, works, and ideas of Mirza Agha Khan Kermani (1853 or 1854 Ð 1896 CE), one of the most capable Iran-centered writers, a founding figure in the discourse of the Constitutional Revolution, and one of the most influential critics of religion and government in the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book presents, for the first time in book form Ray__n b_st_n-afr_z.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe full title of the book is Ray__n-e b_st_n-afr_z: bar _arz va tart_b-i adabiy_t-i farangist_n-i Ôimr_z (ÒOn the Style and Arrangement of the Literature of TodayÕs West), and as Agha Khan Kermani himself notes in the book, he conceived the project in Istanbul and began writing it in Trabzon during his exile Òto pass the time and occupy the mind.Ó It is likely his final work. The book has reached us in an incomplete formÑonly twenty pages are extant. The date of composition is DhiÕl-Qa_da 1313 AH, corresponding to 1896 CE \/ 1275 SH.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Agha Khan Kermani not only critiques classical and contemporary literature of his time but even takes issue with his own earlier works, calling for a fundamental re-evaluation of literatureÑliterature to which he assigns a social function., Asemana Books, Mirza Agha Khan Kermani, Constitutional Literature, M. Rezaei Tazik, Persian Literary Criticism, Mirza Agha Khan Kermani| 9781997503132 | 68PAGES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mirza Agha Khan Kermani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46767807758497,"sku":"9781997503132","price":36.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/958qnvd-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1785200388","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-basil-that-enlightens-the-garden","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}