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1 online resource |
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Cover; Iran What Everyone Needs to Know®; Copyright; For enlightenment of this kind, all that is needed is freedom. And the freedom in question is the most innocuous freedom of all-freedom to make public use of one's reason in all matters. But I hear on all sides the cry: Don't argue! The officer says: Don'; Contents; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1 Ancient and Islamic Iran; What do we know about the Indo-European peoples and the origins of Iran?; How important was Zoroastrianism in Iranian and in world history? |
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What was distinctive about the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the sixth century bc?How did monarchy and government change in the Parthian and Sassanid periods (c. 250 bc to 642 ad)?; Why was the Muslim conquest of Iran so rapid, and why was there a schism between Sunni and Shi'a?; What was Sufism and why was it so important in medieval Iran?; How did Iran survive the many invasions during the centuries that followed the Islamic conquest, and what real continuity was there between pre-Islamic and post-Islamic Iran?; Who were the great thinkers and poets of medieval Iran? |
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2 The Safavids and the Impact of the West (1500-1921)When and why did Iran turn Shi'a?; What caused the collapse of the Safavid dynasty?; How did the Safavid dynasty fall and why was Nader Shah (reigned 1736-1747) significant?; Did contact with Europe benefit or damage Iran in the nineteenth century?; How did the Shi'a clergy become so potentially powerful in nineteenth-century Iran?; What were the origins and what was the significance of the Constitutional Revolution 1906-1911?; 3 The Pahlavis |
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How did the British take control of Iranian oil in the first years of the twentieth century?Did the British put Reza Khan in power in 1921? Was he a British stooge?; Were Reza Shah's efforts to develop and modernize Iran a success or a failure?; Why did the British and Russians occupy Iran and depose Reza Shah in 1941?; How and why was Prime Minister Mosaddeq removed from power in 1953?; What was the White Revolution?; How did the nature of Mohammad Reza Shah's rule change in the 1970s?; 4 The Revolution of 1979 |
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Who was Ruhollah Khomeini and how did he come to wield such influence over Iranians?What were the causes of the revolution of 1979?; Why was the revolution so marked by anti-western rhetoric?; Why did Iran turn away from western, secular models of development toward political Islam?; When and how did the Shah lose control of the country?; How did Khomeini consolidate his and his followers' grip on power after his return from exile on February 1, 1979?; Why did the Iranians occupy the US Embassy in November 1979, and why did it take so long to release the hostages? |
| Summary |
An essential overview of Iran, a complex and important nation that has occupied world headlines for nearly four decades |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Iran.
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Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- History -- 640- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067898
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Iran -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067884
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| Subject |
Iran
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190232979 |
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0190232978 |
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