He wrote several books, most notably, the first book about economics, the first book about constitutionalism, the first book about the ancient history of orient. He was the head of the delegation sent to Paris peace conference of 1919, requesting reparations for the Anglo-Soviet invasion, unfortunately he didn’t succeed. Foroughi died on 26th November 1942 due to heart infarct, he had written in his diaries, ‘’My only regret from death would be, that I won’t be seeing how the humanity will end up!’’
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.
