Islamic Beliefs: Reclaiming the Narrative by Ayatollah Khamenei

"The ultimate guide to understanding the true meanings of faith and religion." This is a much acclaimed text that is now available in the English language known in Farsi as ‘Tarhe Kulliye Andisheye Islami Dar Quran’. This book presents the theological thoughts of a young Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei before the victory of the Islamic Revolution. It advocates the view that over the centuries, we have seen the narrative of Islam defined and even dictated by everything except the Holy Qur'an and the real leaders of the divine movement. It focuses on revisiting the sacred scripture to better understand the true purpose of faith, consequently changing the way we see life and the world around us.   —— Background to the book: The year was 1974 and Iran in this period was a secular country governed by a tyrannical monarch who boasted centuries of ancestral authority and had close ties with global powers.  It was Ramadan in the holy city of Mashhad and with the call for afternoon prayers sound