2024/06/25 by Gabriëlle van den Berg · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies #Islamic Studies and History #Turkey's Politics and Society
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/1475262x.2024.2358751
openalex publication_date 2024/06/25 · openalex created_date 2024/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Sadeq Hedayat (1903–1951) is an Iranian author known for his short stories and his novel Būf-i Kūr (The Blind Owl). An intellectual from an influential family, Hedayat traveled abroad at a young age and became a vegetarian in his youth. He wrote the essay Insān-u ḥayvān (Human and animal) in 1924, when he was only 21 years old. His later essay Favāʾid-i giyāhkhārī (The benefits of vegetarianism, 1927) is understood to be the more mature version of the ideas on animal rights presented in the essay of 1924. This article explores the contents, socio-historical context and the background of Insān-u ḥayvān and Favāʾid-i giyāhkhārī, focusing in particular on the way in which Hedayat represents vegetarianism and the rhetoric he employs to advocate animal welfare in relation to his perception of the human world.