When he falls ill with cancer, we want to show there is an illness among Iranian intellectuals who do not speak.
This was criticised by a group of Iranian intellectuals and also the Interim Government.
However, once in power his ideas often clashed with those of modernist or secular Iranian intellectuals.
But it refused to allow the reprinting of a book that described Iranian intellectuals as "agents paid by Iran's foreign enemies."
One Iranian intellectual has described him as "a psychopath, a hanging judge, detested even by the conservatives."
Iranian religious intellectuals criticize both tradition and modernity.
In brief, Iranian religious intellectuals distinguish various kinds of secularism:
Iranian religious intellectuals borrowed the concept of "tolerance" from these Persian thinkers and developed it further.
Like the Iranian intellectuals, Afghani still had a foot in the old world at the same time as he aspired to the new.
Few Iranian intellectuals want to be quoted by name anymore because remarks that reached the outside world have been distorted in the local witch hunt.