Iran
20 Sep 2004 11:26
By which I mean the modern country, especially since the beginning of the 20th century, and not the whole previous history of Persianate culture...
See also: Afghanistan; Central Asia; Islam; Islamism; Revolution;
- Recommended:
- Gilles Keppel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam [Has an excellent chapter on the Iranian revolution, and later state policy]
- To read:
- Geneive Abdo, Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran
- Ervand Abrahamian, Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic [online]
- Kathryn Babayan, Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran
- Tara Bahrampour, To See and See Again: A Lie in Iran and America
- Frederik Barth, Nomads of South Persia; The Baseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy
- Maziar Behrooz, Rebels with a Cause; The Failure of the Left in Iran
- Cheryl Benard and Zalmay Khalizad, The Government of God: Iran's Islamic Republic
- Ryszard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs
- Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804--1946
- Nikki R. Keddie, Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran
- Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah's Men
- Reinhold Loeffler, Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village
- Vanessa Martin, Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran
- Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500--1900 [Blurb, introduction]
- Abbas Milani, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran
- Ali Mirsepassai, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran
- Martin Riesebrodt, Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran
- Rouhi Shafii, Scent of Saffron: Three Generations of an Iranian Family
- Edward Shirley, Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran
- Alison Wearing, Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
