A history of Iran
Subtitle: empire of the mind
By: Michael Axworthy.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780465008889
Subjects: Iran -- History.; Iran -- History -- To 640.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-323) 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; value: 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.