(follow the link to get the book on electronic format)
Translated from the Persian
About Ali Dasti
Ali Dashti was born in 1896 in a village in Dashtestan, a district adjoining the port of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf in Iran. His father brought the young Ali Dasti to Karbala in Iraq and lodged him in a madrasa for training in Islamic and theological studies so that he could become a cleric. He received a full madrasas education, acquiring a thorough knowledge of Islamic theology and history, logic, rhetoric, and Arabic and Persian grammar and classical literature. But realizing what Islam was all about as this book will reveal ― he chose not to undertake a clerical career, when he returned to Iran.
Instead, he became an author and novelist and a parliamentarian. After the Islamic revolution in 1979 in Iran, he was arrested and tortured by the Khomeini regmie which left him with a broken thigh. He was released but not allowed to return to home at Zargandeh, a northern suburb of Tehran. A notice in the Iranian periodical Ayanda reported his death in the month of Dey of the Iranian year 1360, i.e. between 22 December 1981 and 20 January 1982.
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