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After Khomeini
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 63.95For Iran the years since Ayatollah Khomeini's death have been dominated by the need for political consolidation and economic reconstruction. The book assesses the critical dilemmas of the regime both previous to and since the demise of its first spiritual leader. The vital issues of political succession and constitutional reform are addressed, contributing... more...
Making of Modern Iran
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 190.00The articles in this volume collectively present a picture of Iran under Riza Shah in all its complexity, in darker as well as lighter shades, highlighting the era's debt to the past as well as its legacy to the future. more...
Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 44.95This book opposes the way in which, for too long, the whole period of Mongol domination of Iran has been viewed from a negative standpoint. more...
Iran's Persian Gulf Policy
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 200.00This book examines the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the Persian Gulf states from 1979 to 1998. more...
Iran Encountering Globalization
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 185.00This text examines the current state of Iran, looking at a wide range of areas including the economy, finance, politics, the media, the position of women and migration. The book discusses the uneasy balance between the theocratic conservatism, modernisation and globalization, concluding that forces for change in Iran are building up. more...
Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95Even though the left has never held power in Iran, its impact on the political, intellectual and cultural development of modern Iran has been profound. This book's authors undertake a fundamental re-examination and re-appraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran, interpreted in the broadest sense, throughout the period of its existence up... more...
Small Players of the Great Game
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 44.95This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian empire. The Great Game itself has been written about extensively, but never from a Persian angle and from the point of view of the local players in that game. Looking at the territorial consequences... more...
Refashioning Iran
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 155.00Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made 'homeless' by subsequent... more...
Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 32.00Ali Mirsepassi explores Eurocentric assumptions about modernity and Islamic Fundamentalism. He argues the Iranian Revolution was not a clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity and culture and assesses the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East. more...
The Persian Gulf in the Coming Decade
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Likely challenges to US interests in the Persian Gulf, key uncertainties and trends, and the implications of those trends for the USA are examined in this study. It concludes that while many trends in the region are positive, daunting problems remain. more...









