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ISBN-10 :  0190232951 

ISBN-13 :  9780190232955

Author:  Michael Axworthy 

Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major Islamic state with broad regional influence and its deep integration into the global economy through its vast energy reserves. Yet the close attention paid to Iran in recent decades stems from the impact of the 1979 revolution, which unleashed ideological shock waves throughout the Middle East that reverberate to this day. Many observers look at Iran through the prism of the Islamic Republic’s adversarial relationship with the US, Israel, and Sunni nations in its region, yet as Michael Axworthy shows in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®, there is much more to contemporary Iran than its fraught and complicated foreign relations. He begins with a concise account of Iranian history from ancient times to the late twentieth century, following that with sharp summaries of the key events since the1979 revolution. The final section of the book focuses on Iran today–its culture, economy, politics, and people–and assesses the challenges that the nation will face in coming years. Iran will be an essential overview of a complex and important nation that has occupied world headlines for nearly four decades.

Iran : what everyone needs to know 1st Table of contents:

1 Ancient and Islamic Iran
What do we know about the Indo-European peoples and the origins of Iran?
How important was Zoroastrianism in Iranian and in world history?
What was distinctive about the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BC?
How did monarchy and government change in the Parthian and Sassanid periods (c. 250 BC to 642 AD)?
Why was the Muslim conquest of Iran so rapid, and why was there a schism between Sunni and Shi‘a?
What was Sufism and why was it so important in medieval Iran?
How did Iran survive the many invasions during the centuries that followed the Islamic conquest, and what real continuity was there between pre-Islamic and post-Islamic Iran?
Who were the great thinkers and poets of medieval Iran?
2 The Safavids and the Impact of the West (1500–1921)
When and why did Iran turn Shi‘a?
What caused the collapse of the Safavid dynasty?
How did the Safavid dynasty fall and why was Nader Shah (reigned 1736–1747) significant?
Did contact with Europe benefit or damage Iran in the nineteenth century?
How did the Shi‘a clergy become so potentially powerful in nineteenth-century Iran?
What were the origins and what was the significance of the Constitutional Revolution 1906–1911?
3 The Pahlavis
How did the British take control of Iranian oil in the first years of the twentieth century?
Did the British put Reza Khan in power in 1921? Was he a British stooge?
Were Reza Shah’s efforts to develop and modernize Iran a success or a failure?
Why did the British and Russians occupy Iran and depose Reza Shah in 1941?
How and why was Prime Minister Mosaddeq removed from power in 1953?
What was the White Revolution?
How did the nature of Mohammad Reza Shah’s rule change in the 1970s?
4 The Revolution of 1979
Who was Ruhollah Khomeini and how did he come to wield such influence over Iranians?
What were the causes of the revolution of 1979?
Why was the revolution so marked by anti-western rhetoric?
Why did Iran turn away from western, secular models of development toward political Islam?
When and how did the Shah lose control of the country?
How did Khomeini consolidate his and his followers’ grip on power after his return from exile on February 1, 1979?
Why did the Iranians occupy the US Embassy in November 1979, and why did it take so long to release the hostages?
5 The Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), Rafsanjani, Khatami, Reconstruction, and Reform
What or who was primarily responsible for the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war?
Why did the Iran-Iraq war last so long?
What was the Iran/Contra affair?
Did Iran win or lose the Iran-Iraq war and why was the war so important?
When and why did Iran get involved in Lebanon?
What was the significance of the so-called fatwa against Salman Rushdie?
How did the Islamic Republic change after Khomeini’s death in 1989?
What went wrong for Rafsanjani as president in 1989–1997?
Why did attempts at reform fail under Khatami, during 1997–2005?
How has the Islamic regime treated minorities since the revolution?
Have social problems like unemployment and drug addiction got better or worse since 1989?
Does Iran support terrorism?
What is so special about Iranian cinema?
6 Ahmadinejad, Rouhani, and Iran Now
How did Ahmadinejad become president in 2005?
Did Ahmadinejad’s provocative statements about the Holocaust reflect a deep-seated Iranian anti-Semitism?
Was the Iranian nuclear program intended to produce a nuclear weapon?
Is Iran a serious threat to Israel?
Why did the reelection of Ahmadinejad as president in 2009 cause such a political crisis within Iran?
How important is the Revolutionary Guard (Sepah) in Iranian politics?
Is the Leader, Ali Khamenei, a dictator? Who really runs the Islamic Republic?
What was the significance of Rouhani’s election as president in 2013?
Why has Iran supported the Assad regime in Syria?
How has the position of women changed in Iran since 1979?
How bad are the human rights abuses?
Is Iran the Soviet Union of the twenty-first century?
How did the deal made in Vienna in July 2015 over Iran’s nuclear program come about, and is it going to hold?
How important is the confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and between Sunni and Shi‘a?
What are the prospects for Iran after the nuclear agreement of 2015?

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