history of Iran
Subtitle: empire of the mind
By: Michael Axworthy.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780465008889
Subjects: Iran -- History; Iran -- History -- To 640
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Origins : Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks; title: The Iranian revival : Parthians and Sassanids; title: Islam and invasions : the Arabs, Turks and Mongols : the Iranian reconquest of Islam, the Sufis, and the poets; title: Shiʻism and the Safavids; title: The fall of the Safavids, Nader Shah, the eighteenth-century interregnum, and the early years of the Qajar dynasty; title: The crisis of the Qajar monarchy, the revolution of 1905-1911 and the accession of the Pahlavi dynasty; title: The Pahlavis, and the revolution of 1979; title: Iran since the revolution : Islamic revival, war and confrontation; title: From Khatami to Ahmadinejad, and the Iranian predicament.