A history of Iran empire of the mind

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Main Author: Axworthy, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Basic Books 2008
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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
  • Shi'ism 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.