Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong: Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900—1950

What his first chapter does offer is a fascinating overview of the rise of science and of science-based education as part of a modernist ideational and material culture, slowly spreading out across the country from the capital. [...] according to Schayegh, modern science remained "colonial," since well into the twentieth century, no significant scientific research occurred in Iran, nor was science linked to major economic and industrial activities.