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ali al-wardi [794ba7c3]

  • Modern iraqi intellectual, phd in sociology from university of texas in 1950
  • everyone knows him, you'll often see entire sections dedicated to him in bookshelves, even in kurdistan, he's adopted as a national iraqi identity figure

  • quran as social text

    • Bashkin, Orit. “ADVICE FROM THE PAST: ‘ALI AL-WARDI ON LITERATURE AND SOCIETY.” In Writing the Modern History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges, edited by Jordi Tejel. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2012.
  • very much quoted throughout
  • ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A_(%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8)