Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic RepublicOxford University Press, 10 mars 2016 - 544 pages In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's leadership unchanged. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a defining moment of the modern era. Its success unleashed a wave of Islamist fervor across the Middle East and signaled a sharp decline in the appeal of Western ideologies in the Islamic world. Axworthy takes readers through the major periods in Iranian history over the last thirty years: the overthrow of the old regime and the creation of the new one; the Iran-Iraq war; the reconstruction era following the war; the reformist wave led by Mohammed Khatami; and the present day, in which reactionaries have re-established control. Throughout, he emphasizes that the Iranian revolution was centrally important in modern history because it provided the world with a clear model of development that was not rooted in Western ideologies. Whereas the world's major revolutions of the previous two centuries had been fuelled by Western, secular ideologies, the Iranian Revolution drew its inspiration from Islam. Revolutionary Iran is both richly textured and from one of the leading authorities on the region; combining an expansive scope with the most accessible and definitive account of this epoch in all its humanity. |
Table des matières
Ten Days of Dawn Dahehye Fajr | 1 |
Ma Chegoneh Ma Shodim? How Did We Become What We Are? | 15 |
2 The 1970s and the Slide to Revolution | 76 |
Islamic Republic 197980 | 133 |
The Imposed War 198088 | 187 |
Khamenei and Rafsanjani 198897 | 268 |
Khatami and Reform 19972005 | 324 |
Ahmadinejad and Khamenei 200512 | 370 |
Glossary | 425 |
431 | |
Notes | 439 |
477 | |
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