Iran (Modern)
Last update: 20 Sep 2004 11:26First version: 20 September 2004
By which I mean the modern country, basically since the end of the Safavids, especially since the beginning of the 20th century, and not the whole previous history of Persianate culture back to the Achaemanids and beyond...
- See also:
- Afghanistan
- Central Asia
- Islam
- Islamism
- Revolution
- Recommended, big picture:
- Abbas Amanat, Iran: A Modern History
- Recommended, close-ups:
- Christian Caryl, Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
- Ernest Gellner, "Waiting for Imam, or, The political and hygenic theology of Khomeini, or, Government not by Imams but by lawyers", in his Culture, Identity, and Politics
- Gilles Keppel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam [Has an excellent chapter on the Iranian revolution, and later state policy]
- Abdolkarim Soroush, Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings [Comments 1, 2]
- To read, the Revolution (blends into next sub-topic):
- Ryszard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs
- Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah's Men
- Nikki R. Keddie, Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran
- To read, the Islamic Republic (blends into previous sub-topic):
- Geneive Abdo, Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran
- Ervand Abrahamian, Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic
- Cheryl Benard and Zalmay Khalizad, The Government of God: Iran's Islamic Republic
- Vanessa Martin, Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran
- To read, not otherwise or not yet classified:
- 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
- Juan R. I. Cole, Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith
- Alireza Doostdar, The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
- Roya Hakakian, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace
- Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804--1946
- Reinhold Loeffler, Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village
- Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants
in Iranian History, 1500--1900
- 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