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In Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, Cyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the increasing stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower, and demographic stagnation. The book examines the ways by which scientific knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists to socially differentiate themselves from society at large and, at the very same time, to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that both class formation and social reform emerged at the interstices of local Iranian and Western-dominated global contexts and concerns.

Science and civilization. --- Civilization and science --- History and science --- Science and history --- Science and society --- Progress --- Iran --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions --- 1900. --- 1950. --- 20th century. --- biomedical sciences. --- civic. --- class differences. --- class. --- demographics. --- economic power. --- everyday life. --- global concerns. --- global contexts. --- historical. --- iranian culture. --- iranian modernists. --- iranian society. --- middle class. --- middle east. --- modern history. --- modern iran. --- modern problems. --- modern science. --- modern stresses. --- nonfiction. --- revolution. --- science. --- scientific knowledge. --- social distinctions. --- social reform. --- western context. --- world history.