Ebrahim had earlier introduced Foroughi to the court of Qajar to run the school for Ahmad Shah after the removal of Mohammad Ali Shah). Initially I thought Mr Foroughi was there to represent in the dispute with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later Anglo, now British Petroleum) resulting in the infamous 1933 Agreement. My uncle Hashem Hakimi sent it to Mr Farhad Sepahbody his old friend & colleague whose father appeared in the photo.
The collected essays of Mohammad Ali Foroughi not only present a portrait of the multifaceted and complex character of one of the most influential cultural, academic, and political figures of modern Iran, but also depict the cultural issues and political and social conditions of the country during the turbulent years of Foroughi’s cultural and political life—from the first Constitutional Assembly to the early years of the reign of the second Pahlavi. Mohammad Ali Foroughi was among the most brilliant figures of a generation of Iranian scholars, historians, men of letters, and researchers who emerged from the Constitutional Revolution. During the tumultuous years of that revolution, World War I, and throughout the two-decade reign of the first Pahlavi monarch, they published their works and were so rich and creative in their fields that, apart from perhaps one or two exceptions, no one in later generations managed to take their place.
