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Author : Yasmine Mahdavi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578965000
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Roots in Iran written by Yasmine Mahdavi and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover version of book.
Author : Ata Anzali
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178088
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Mysticism in Iran written by Ata Anzali and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm "Mysticism" in Iran is an in-depth analysis of significant transformations in the religious landscape of Safavid Iran that led to the marginalization of Sufism and the eventual emergence of 'irfan as an alternative Shi'i model of spirituality. Ata Anzali draws on a treasure-trove of manuscripts from Iranian archives to offer an original study of the transformation of Safavid Persia from a majority Sunni country to a Twelver Shi'i realm. The work straddles social and intellectual history, beginning with an examination of late Safavid social and religious contexts in which Twelver religious scholars launched a successful campaign against Sufism with the tacit approval of the court. This led to the social, political, and economic marginalization of Sufism, which was stigmatized as an illegitimate mode of piety rooted in a Sunni past. Anzali directs the reader's attention to creative and successful attempts by other members of the ulama to incorporate the Sufi tradition into the new Twelver milieu. He argues that the category of 'irfan, or "mysticism," was invented at the end of the Safavid period by mystically minded scholars such as Shah Muhammad Darabi and Qutb al-Din Nayrizi in reference to this domesticated form of Sufism. Key aspects of Sufi thought and practice were revisited in the new environment, which Anzali demonstrates by examining the evolving role of the spiritual master. This traditional Sufi function was reimagined by Shi'i intellectuals to incorporate the guidance of the infallible imams and their deputies, the ulama. Anzali goes on to address the institutionalization of 'irfan in Shi'i madrasas and the role played by prominent religious scholars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in this regard. The book closes with a chapter devoted to fascinating changes in the thought and practice of 'irfan in the twentieth century during the transformative processes of modernity. Focusing on the little-studied figure of Kayvan Qazvini and his writings, Anzali explains how 'irfan was embraced as a rational, science-friendly, nonsectarian, and anticlerical concept by secular Iranian intellectuals.
Author : Hamid Algar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Roots of the Islamic Revolution in Iran written by Hamid Algar and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300098561
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Modern Iran written by Nikki R. Keddie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and expanded version of Nikki Keddie's work, Roots of Revolution, the author brings the story of modern Iran to the present day, exploring the political, cultural, and social changes of the past quarter century. Keddie provides insightful commentary on the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf War, and the effects of 9/11 and Iran's strategic relationship with the US. She also discusses developments in education, health care, the arts and the role of women.
Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315404524
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Revolution in Iran written by Mehran Kamrava and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observers of Iran have often ascribed the main cause of the revolution to economic problems under the Shah’s regime. This book, first published in 1990, on the other hand focuses on the political and social factors which contributed of the Pahlavi dynasty. Mehran Kamrava looks at the revolution in detail as a political phenomenon, making use of extensive interviews with former revolutionary leaders, cabinet ministers and diplomats to show the central role of the political collapse of the regime in bringing about the revolution. He concentrates on the internal and the international developments leading to this collapse, and the social environment in which the revolution’s leaders emerged.
Author : Shireen T. Hunter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442233206
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Iran Divided written by Shireen T. Hunter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iranian politics has been marked by sharp ideological divisions and infighting. These divides, kept largely out of public view until the 1990s, came to greater light with the contested 2009 presidential elections. To explain the diverse and complex forces that led to this event and that animate Iran’s current fractured society and polity, author Shireen T. Hunter looks beyond the battle between the forces of reform and reaction, democracy and dictatorship, and considers the historic forces that created the conditions faced by Iran since the revolution. Iran Divided: The Historic Roots of Iranian Debates on Identity, Culture, and Governance in the 21st Century explains historical and political factors and their relevance to Iran today, shedding light on the forces behind Iranian politics and society. This book discusses: historical roots of Iran’s current divisions and debates; Iran versus Islam; secularism versus religion; constitutionalism versus Islamic government; fundamental issues of identity, culture, and governance; aging of the revolutionary coalition; development of new elites; experiences of the Islamic republic; and new international conditions moving the country beyond old divides and ideological rifts toward a new national consensus. A comprehensive survey, the book will be an indispensable tool to any student seeking to understand the Islamic Republic of Iran and its standing in the world today.
Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300026061
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Roots of Revolution written by Nikki R. Keddie and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Iran focuses on the Shah's rise and fall and the causes of the Iranian revolution
Author : Michael Axworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190468963
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary Iran written by Michael Axworthy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy offers a richly textured and authoritative history of Iran from the 1979 revolution to the present.
Author : John Ghazvinian
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307271811
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book America and Iran written by John Ghazvinian and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--
Author : Chelsi Mueller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489087
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict written by Chelsi Mueller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to examine the interwar period origins of the present-day Arab-Iranian conflict.
Author : Ervand Abrahamian
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595588620
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book The Coup written by Ervand Abrahamian and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “absorbing” account of the CIA’s 1953 coup in Iran—essential reading for anyone concerned about Iran’s role in the world today (Harper’s Magazine). In August 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. When the 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the shah and replaced his puppet government with a radical Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the shift reverberated throughout the Middle East and the world, casting a long, dark shadow over United States-Iran relations that extends to the present day. In this authoritative new history of the coup and its aftermath, noted Iran scholar Ervand Abrahamian uncovers little-known documents that challenge conventional interpretations and sheds new light on how the American role in the coup influenced diplomatic relations between the two countries, past and present. Drawing from the hitherto closed archives of British Petroleum, the Foreign Office, and the US State Department, as well as from Iranian memoirs and published interviews, Abrahamian’s riveting account of this key historical event will change America’s understanding of a crucial turning point in modern United States-Iranian relations. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Not only is this book important because of its presentation of history. It is also important because it might be predicting the future.” —Counterpunch “Subtle, lucid, and well-proportioned.” —The Spectator “A valuable corrective to previous work and an important contribution to Iranian history.” —American Historical Review
Author : Ali Gheissari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195396960
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Democracy in Iran written by Ali Gheissari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr look at the political history of Iran in the modern era, and offer an in-depth analysis of the prospects for democracy to flourish there. After having produced the only successful Islamist challenge to the state, a revolution, and an Islamic Republic, Iran is now poised to produce a genuine and indigenous democratic movement in the Muslim world. Democracy in Iran is neither a sudden development nor a western import, and Gheissari and Nasr seek to understand why democracy failed to grow roots and lost ground to an autocratic Iranian state.
Author : Farideh Goldin
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771991372
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Leaving Iran written by Farideh Goldin and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on the last El-Al flights to Tel Aviv. They arrived in Israel as refugees, having left everything behind including the only home Farideh’s father had ever known. Baba, as Farideh called her father, was a well-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz. During his last visit to the United States in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoir that chronicled the years of his life after exile: the confiscation of his passport while he attempted to return to Iran for his belongings, the resulting years of loneliness as he struggled against a hostile bureaucracy to return to his wife and family in Israel, and the eventual loss of the poultry farm that had supported his family. Farideh translated her father’s memoir along with other documents she found in a briefcase after his death. Leaving Iran knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home. As an intimate portrait of displacement and the construction of identity, as a story of family loyalty and cultural memory, Leaving Iran is an important addition to a growing body of Iranian–American narratives.
Author : Misagh Parsa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674974298
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Democracy in Iran written by Misagh Parsa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal reforms seemed possible. But the opportunity proved short-lived, leaving Iranian activists and intellectuals to debate whether any path to democracy remained open. Offering a new framework for understanding democratization in developing countries governed by authoritarian regimes, Democracy in Iran is a penetrating, historically informed analysis of Iran’s current and future prospects for reform. Beginning with the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Misagh Parsa traces the evolution of Iran’s theocratic regime, examining the challenges the Islamic Republic has overcome as well as those that remain: inequalities in wealth and income, corruption and cronyism, and a “brain drain” of highly educated professionals eager to escape Iran’s repressive confines. The political fortunes of Iranian reformers seeking to address these problems have been uneven over a period that has seen hopes raised during a reformist administration, setbacks under Ahmadinejad, and the birth of the Green Movement. Although pro-democracy activists have made progress by fits and starts, they have few tangible reforms to show for their efforts. In Parsa’s view, the outlook for Iranian democracy is stark. Gradual institutional reforms will not be sufficient for real change, nor can the government be reformed without fundamentally rethinking its commitment to the role of religion in politics and civic life. For Iran to democratize, the options are narrowing to a single path: another revolution.
Author : Mitra K. Shavarini
Publisher : Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781593324995
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Desert Roots written by Mitra K. Shavarini and published by Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Roots is the true story of the author's parents who, after being self-imposed exiles from their native Iran for 33 years, decided to leave the United States and return to their homeland. In this family biography, Shavarini explores the issues that brought them to America-and eventually drew them back home again. The experiences of her family will help readers understand the struggles many Iranians-those living in Iran and abroad-have faced. Threaded throughout the story are universal themes that connect readers to the many characters within: a mother trying to raise her children in a new country, a father disappointed in what life ultimately has in store for him, immigrant children ashamed of their roots, and proud nationalist ancestors. Themes of loss, regret, and tragedy, as well as perseverance and resilience, are part of this book's broader narrative.
Author : Michael Axworthy
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465098770
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book A History of Iran written by Michael Axworthy and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim clerics in the world, yet its poetry insistently dwells on the joys of life: wine, beauty, sex. Iranian women are subject to one of the most restrictive dress codes in the Islamic world, but make up nearly 60 percent of the student population of the nation's universities. In A History of Iran, acclaimed historian Michael Axworthy chronicles the rich history of this complex nation from the Achaemenid Empire of sixth century BC to the revolution of 1979 to today, including a close look at Iran's ongoing attempts to become a nuclear power. A History of Iran offers general readers an essential guide to understanding this volatile nation, which is once again at the center of the world's attention.
Author : Saeed Shirazi
Publisher : Ketab.com
ISBN 13 : 159584600X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book A CONCISE HISTORY OF IRAN written by Saeed Shirazi and published by Ketab.com. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
