God’s Medium
Sam Miller, 3 April 1986
The Mantle of the Prophet
by Roy Mottahedeh.
Chatto, 416 pp., £12.95, January 1986,0 7011 3035 0 Show More
by Roy Mottahedeh.
Chatto, 416 pp., £12.95, January 1986,
“... was the abolition of the veil. In 1941, according to Ahmad, a sceptical university professor in Roy Mottahedeh’s book The Mantle of the Prophet, ‘women such as my aunt, who hadn’t left her house since Reza Shah’s forced unveiling of women, felt as if they had been released from prison, because they could appear in the streets in their ... ”
