Buḥrān-i tamaddunī-i Īrān-i muʻāṣir

Developed from lectures delivered to seminary students in Iṣfahān, this study reads the predicament of contemporary Iranian society through the lens of civilisation studies. Its central claim is that culture is a networked phenomenon with a defining centre, and that when that centre erodes and rival behavioural systems come to govern a society, civilisational rupture follows. The author traces how Iranians have grown distant from the coherent order of earlier eras, falling into wide-ranging fractures that recent decades have only deepened. After setting out the concept and features of civilisation and the relationship between thought, culture, and civilisation, the work surveys a sequence of cultural disorders—in urban planning, the scientific and administrative systems, sexual mores, and cinema—before turning to the requisites for emerging from crisis: cultivating genuine need and orientation, governmental ijtihād and system-building, and a discerning appropriation of the West.