The Persian Puzzle The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth Pollack | 1.39 MB
English | 539 Pages

Title: The Persian Puzzle
Author: Kenneth M. Pollack
Year: 2005

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1503629147 | 229 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.87 MB
The Discovery of Iranexamines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal,Donya. In his quest to imagine a future for Iran open to the scientific riches of the modern world and the historical diversity of its own people, Arani combined Marxist materialism and a cosmopolitan ethics of progress. He sought to reconcile Iran to its post-Islamic past, rejected by Persian purists and romanticized by their traditionalist counterparts, while orienting its present toward the modern West in all its complex and conflicting facets.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 0262542846 | 265 pages | True PDF | 14.48 MB
How Iranians forged a vibrant, informal video distribution infrastructure when their government banned all home video technology in 1983.

English | 2016 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B01KBDQ7EI | Duration: 5:30 h | 151 MB
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The Last Shah - America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty | 2.16 MB
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Yann Richard, "Iran: A Social and Political History since the Qajars"
English | ISBN: 110847683X | 2019 | 366 pages | PDF | 2 MB
From encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, and from the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddeq in the 1950s to the current Islamic Republic, Iran's history has rarely been far from tumultuous and dramatic. And the ways in which Iranian society has participated in and reacted to these events have been equally fascinating and revolutionary. Here for the first time in English, Yann Richard offers his take on the social and political history of Iran since 1800. Richard's account traces the common threads of national ideology and violent conflict that have characterised a number of episodes in Iranian history. By also concerning himself with the reactions and feelings of Iranian society, and by referring frequently to Persian sources and commentaries, Richard gives us a unique insight into the challenges encountered by Iranians in modern times.

Desert Landscapes and Landforms of Iran by Mehran Maghsoudi
English | EPUB | 2020 | 204 Pages | ISBN : 3030589110 | 329.9 MB
This book offers a unique and highly illustrated overview of the desert geomorphology of Iran. It describes the different landscapes and landforms of desert areas such as ergs and badlands offering a comprehensive insight into typical fluvial and eolian forms such as playas, alluvial fans, yardangs, salt domes, dunes, hoodoos and many more. The monograph elaborates the interaction of humans with the landscapes and discusses ongoing developments in geotourism, natural heritage sites as well as the potential for geoparks.

The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran By Ali M. Ansari
2012 | 342 Pages | ISBN: 0521867622 | PDF | 3 MB
This sophisticated and challenging book by the distinguished historian Ali M. Ansari explores the idea of nationalism in the creation of modern Iran. It does so by considering the broader developments in national ideologies that took place following the emergence of the European Enlightenment and showing how these ideas were adopted by a non-European state. Ansari charts a course through twentieth-century Iran, analyzing the growth of nationalistic ideas and their impact on the state and demonstrating the connections between historiographical and political developments. In so doing, he shows how Iran's different regimes manipulated ideologies of nationalism and collective historical memory to suit their own ends. Firmly relocating Reza Shah within the context of the Constitutional Revolution, Ansari argues that Reza Pahlavi's identification with a monarchy by Divine Right bore a greater resemblance to, and facilitated, the religious nationalism that catapulted Ayatollah Khomeini to power on the back of a populist and highly personalized mythology. Drawing on hitherto untapped sources, the book concludes that it was the revolutionary developments and changes that occurred during the first half of the twentieth century that paved the way for later radicalization. As the first book-length study of Iranian nationalism in nearly five decades, it will find an eager readership among scholars of the Middle East and those students more generally interested in questions of nationalism and ideology.

The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran By Roy Mottahedeh
2014 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1851682341 | EPUB | 1 MB
Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's account of Islam and politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one the best records of that turbulent time ever written.

Mahmoud Pargoo, "Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367654679 | 182 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its secularization. The research engages a range of debates across different fields, emphasizing the political and epistemological instability of the basic categories such as Islam, Sharia, and secularism.