Zapamiętana historia islamskiej rewolucji. The Hard Awakening: historia książki, polityka i autobiografia

Abstract

The article presenting the situation of the Anglican com­munity in Iran during the Iranian revolution, problems and persecutions the Iranian Anglican faced at that time is focused particularly on a book written by the Anglican bishop Hassan Dehqani-Tafti (1920–2008). The book en­titled The Hard Awakening was published in London in 1981 by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, however before its publication the book arose discussions among the workers of the British Foreign and Common­wealth Office. The article attempts to describe and analyze the circumstances in which the book was written and pub­lished in a context of hard British-Iranian relations con­nected to the imprisonment of British citizens in Iran in 1980, underling the importance of the book as a personal story of the revolution seen and experienced by an Iranian, Christian, Anglican.