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A cultural history of a people split in two by the forces of imperialism, this study examines the long-standing Russian-Iranian division of the land west... Læs mere
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Bulliet abandons the historian's habit of viewing Islamic history "from the center," that is, focusing on the rise and fall of imperial dynasties. Instead, he derives an... Læs mere
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These interviews with poets and writers still living and working in Iran demonstrate their belief that literature s value is in opening spaces of awareness in the minds of the reader.
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Heiss provides the most detailed account available of the 1951 seizure of British oil holdings in Iran by prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh, a turning point in cold war history.
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This text explores the consequences of the meeting in medieval Iran of two religious communities - Zoroastrians and Muslims. It examines patterns of communal behaviour during the seventh to thirteenth centuries AD and suggest how both groups were transformed.
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This examination of the events of the Iranian Revolution highlights class politics and the contention for power within the context of changing... Læs mere
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The strategic and political implications of an already-nuclear rogue power.
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Drawing on his experience as a linguistic anthropologist, this author parses how political leaders have used historical references, religious associations, and the mythology of evil to inflame their own citizens against the foreign country and proposes a way out of this debacle.
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This study offers an interpretation of the political battles that paved the way for reform in Iran. The author argues that the struggle for a more... Læs mere
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Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi was born around 1154, probably in Northwestern Iran. Spurred by a dream in which Aristotle appeared to him, he rejected the Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy of his youth and undertook the task of reviving the philosophical tradition of the "Ancients."
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The reopening of Iraq's National Museum attracted worldwide attention, underscoring the country's dual image as both the cradle of civilization and a... Læs mere
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Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the... Læs mere