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Seyyed Javad Tabatabai argues that Persian literature can only be understood within the horizon of Iranian thought, and that Iran must be rescued from the literati. Examining the place of Saadi and Hafez, he stresses the importance of 'the new within the old' in Iranian culture for a renaissance.
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