Post-revolutionary Politics in Iran
Subtitle: Religion, Society and Power
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780714650746
Subjects: International relations; Political structure & processes; Political Science; General; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Iran; Middle East - Iran; Political Science / International Relations; Foreign relations; 1979-1997; 1997-; Politics and government
First sentence: Perhaps the most profound achievement of the 1979 revolution was the unification of religion and state, and the transfer of all power - theological and political - to the highest religious authority, the marja'-e taqlid (source of imitation), or, as the co