Musaddiq and the struggle for power in Iran
A biography of Muhammad Musaddiq, who was prime minister of Iran between 1951 and 1953 until he was deposed in a CIA-backed coup d'etat and who has long been regarded as one of the great anti-colonial...
10 Joulu 202420min
The Political Economy of Modern Iran: Despotism and Pseudo-Modernism, 1926–1979
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8 Joulu 202421min
The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran
In recent years, Iran has gained attention primarily for negative reasons - its authoritarian religious government disputed its nuclear programme and controversial role in the Middle East - but there ...
6 Joulu 202429min
State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis
Iran was the first country in the Middle East to experience (in 1905-6) a popular revolution that demanded the rule of law and parliamentary government. However, the democratic constitution establishe...
4 Joulu 202415min
Sa’di in Love: The Lyrical Verses of Persia’s Master Poet
'In the breath that I die, for you, I'll be longing/ Wishing to turn into the dust of your belonging' - Sa'di, Expressions of Love. With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210-1281) is a vit...
30 Marras 202432min
Poetry and Revolution: The Poets and Poetry of the Constitutional Era of Iran
Following a two-pronged approach, this volume studies both those who the Constitutional Revolution influenced in their works and those who addressed the Revolution with their work, influencing it dire...
28 Marras 202435min
Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature
Humour in Iran is a close and comprehensive study of satire and humour – in verse and prose – over the eleven hundred years since the emergence of classical Persian literature. Combining Persian origi...
26 Marras 202421min
