Empire of the mind
Subtitle: a history of Iran
By: Michael Axworthy.
Publisher: Hurst
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781850658719
Subjects: Iran -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and index.
Table of contents: value: Origins : Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks; value: The Iranian revival : Parthians and Sassanids; value: Islam and invasions : the Arabs, Turks and Mongols : the Iranian reconquest of Islam, the Sufis, and the poets; value: Shiʻism and the Safavids; value: The fall of the Safavids, Nader Shah, the eighteenth-century interregnum, and the early years of the Qajar dynasty; value: The crisis of the Qajar monarchy, the revolution of 1905-1911 and the accession of the Pahlavi dynasty; value: The Pahlavis, and the revolution of 1979; value: Iran since the revolution : Islamic revival, war and confrontation; value: From Khatami to Ahmadinejad, and the Iranian predicament.