Revolutionary Iran A History of the Islamic Republic

Name: Revolutionary Iran A History of the Islamic Republic
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ISBN: 9780199322268

ISBN-10: 0199322260

ISBN-13: 9780199322268

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Axworthy

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The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a defining moment of the modern era. Its success unleashed a wave of Islamist fervor across the Middle East and signaled a sharp decline in the appeal of Western ideologies in the Islamic world. And the reaction it inspired testified to its importance: as with the Russian and French revolutions, outsiders tried to crush it in its crib. A year after the mullahs' assumption of power, Iraq, with aid from other Arab states and the US, declared war on Iran. Yet the revolution prevailed, and the Islamic Republic persists to this day. And despite the deep rifts separating Sunnis and Shiites, the regime motivated successive waves of revolutionary Islamism across…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 9.50" wide x 6.70" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Maps


Acknowledgements


Introduction: The Hidden Continent of Iran


Prologue: 'Ten Days of Dawn' (Daheh-ye Fajr)



The Background: Ma Chegoneh Ma Shodim? ('How Did We Become What We Are?')



The 1970s and the Slide to Revolution



Like the Person He Ought to Be: Islamic Republic, 1979-80



Jang-e Tahmili: The Imposed War, 1980-88



The End of the War, the Death of the Emam, and Reconstruction: Khamenei and Rafsanjani, 1988-97



Bim-e Mowj (Fear of the Wave): Khatami and Reform, 1997-2005



Everything Must Change, So That Everything Can Stay the Same: Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, 2005-12


Glossary


Select Bibliography


Notes


Index