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Author Axworthy, Michael.

Title A history of Iran : empire of the mind / Michael Axworthy.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2008]
©2008
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1310475~S1
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Description xvii, 341 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-323) and index.
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.
Subject Iran -- History.
Iran -- History -- To 640.
ISBN 9780465008889
0465008887
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