Iran

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Democracy in modern Iran Islam, culture, and political change
Mirsepassi, Ali.
Ebook
New perspectives on Iran's relationship to democracy Can Islamic societies embrace democracy? In Democracy in Modern Iran, Ali Mirsepassi maintains that it is possible, demonstrating that Islam is not inherently hostile to the idea of democracy. Rather, he provides new...
Iran in world history
Foltz, Richard C.
Ebook
Home of one of the world's most ancient and enduring civilizations, Iran has been at the nexus of world history for the past three thousand years. Situated at the crossroads between East and West, it has been marked by its encounters with other cultures and has influenced them with its own. From...
America and iran
Ghazvinian, John.
Ebook
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * A hugely ambitious, "delightfully readable, genuinely informative" portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America--two powers who were once allies and now adversaries--by an...
Revolutionary Iran : a history of the Islamic republic
Axworthy, Michael.
Ebook
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. And the reaction it inspired testified to its importance: as with the...

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