The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology

@article{Gould2016TheCO,  title={The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology},  author={R. Gould},  journal={Intellectual History Review},  year={2016},  volume={26},  pages={171 - 184},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:147780901}}
  • R. Gould
  • Published11 March 2016
  • History, Political Science, Philosophy
  • Intellectual History Review
Although he was one of the most cosmopolitan writers of the nineteenth-century Persianate world, the writings of the Azeri intellectual Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda (1812–1878) do not present the aut... 

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