A history of Iran empire of the mind
Although frequently vilified, Iran is a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and one of the oldest continuing civilizations in the world. Its political impact has been tremendous, not only on its neighbors in the Middle East but also throughout the world. From the time of the prophet Zoro...
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New York :
Basic Books,
c2010.
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Origins : Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks
- The Iranian revival : Parthians and Sassanids
- Islam and invasions : the Arabs, Turks and Mongols--the Iranian reconquest of Islam, the Sufis, and the poets
- Shiʻism and the Safavids
- The fall of the Safavids, Nader Shah, the eighteenth-century interregnum, and the early years of the Qajar dynasty
- The crisis of the Qajar monarchy, the revolution of 1905-1911, and the accession of the Pahlavi dynasty
- The Pahlavis and the revolution of 1979
- Iran since the revolution : Islamic revival, war, and confrontation
- From Khatami to Ahmadinejad, and the Iranian predicament.
