Revolutionary Iran : a history of the Islamic republic

Summary: "In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's leadership unchanged"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780190468965 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780199322268 (hardback : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0199322260 (hardback : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0190468963
Physical Description: print
xxii, 496 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: [Paperback edition]
Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-438) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: 'Ten days of dawn' (Daheh-ye fajr) -- The background: Ma chegoneh ma shodim? ('How did we become what we are?') -- The 1970s and the slide to revolution -- Like the person he ought to be: Islamic republic, 1979-80 -- Jang-e tahmili: the imposed war, 1980-88 -- The end of the war, the death of the Emam, and reconstruction: Khamenei and Rafsanjani, 1988-97 -- Bim-e mowj (fear of the wave): Khatami and reform, 1997-2005 -- Everything must change so that everything can stay the same: Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, 2005-2012 -- Glossary.