( fa, هبوط در کویر) or ''Falling in the Desert'', is one of the eminent books by

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian author Ali Shariati. The book is an extended article. literally means falling of man from

heaven Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside. According to the belie ...

to earth. exemplifies Shariati's style of writing. He tried to envisage the existential dimension of humans's spirit and soul. The book has no introduction, formal conclusion, or body. It continuously digresses from one context to another without a normal style. The book begins with an account of the

creation Creation may refer to: Religion *''Creatio ex nihilo'', the concept that matter was created by God out of nothing * Creation myth, a religious story of the origin of the world and how people first came to inhabit it * Creationism, the belief tha ...

of man. Man is at the same time could be considered as

Adam Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...

and Shariati. At the end of , there is a plan for creation which is different one from existing one. According to planned creation, the heaven has brought to earth and therefore there appeared an eternal peace and joy. In fact, the original theme of is creation. Shariati describes a moving day by day account of the days of creation and specifically the story of the Covenant. Shariati interpretation of Satan’s disobedience is identical with mystical accounts in nature. He believes that it was lave that prevented

Satan Satan,, ; grc, ὁ σατανᾶς or , ; ar, شيطانالخَنَّاس , also known as Devil in Christianity, the Devil, and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an non-physical entity, entity in the Abrahamic religions ...

from bowing to anybody except his beloved. He used many digressions to through abnormal statements and phrases. In other word, he makes several unorthodox propositions contributed to the significance of for understanding Shariati. Completely contrary to

Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...

and his philosophy of history, Shariati believed that it is not true that the civilized human is less consciousness than now peoples but rather there is a difference between them. The civilized man could talk on himself more that universe and the new people are so concerned with reality and universe that there is no place for himself and mysticism and religion. Of course he knows the movement of soul in Hegel's philosophy and history in one sense as right. In other word it seems that Shariati explained his reflection on the philosophy of history somehow in . He mentioned somebodies who are familiar and acquaintances with him during the history such as Ayn Al Qazat, Prometheus, Abul Ala Marri. He also considered with the art. he counted art as a shelter for himself. One other aspect of the book is that Shariati refers to his understanding of the degrees of religiosity of believers. Quote:

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{{Reflist Books by Ali Shariati Iranian books

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