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A history of Iran : empire of the mind

Call Number

  • 955 A972 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Basic Books, c2008.

Physical Description

xvii, 341 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 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.

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