Original title: (حدیث بیداری (زندگینامه علمی و سیاسی امام خمینی از تولد تا رحلت

Author: Hamid Ansari

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Original language: Persian

Translator: G, Aiello

Publisher: Irfan Edizioni

Year of publication: 2007

Number of pages: 192

ISBN:

In the "West" the figure of Ruhullah Musavi Khomeini has attracted a massive amount of disparaging propaganda; Finding works - even popular ones - that present his figure and illustrate the enormous influence he had on the community of believers and on world geopolitics remains difficult, despite the decades that have passed since the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran and the disappearance of its main protagonist .
Hamid Ansari's account of the Awakening partially fills the gap; it is a fluent reading, accompanied by annotations and critical apparatus more than sufficient for those who want to deepen their knowledge on the subject. The edition published in Rome by Irfan Edizioni and edited by Giuseppe Mahdi Aiello avails itself of the collaboration of the cultural institute of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Even if the work as a whole eschews the most blatant hagiography, pretending to find absolute objectivity in a work that avails itself of such an authoritative patronage would mean to be lacking in realism.