Iran

Author : Ali M. Ansari

Paperback

Published : Friday 26 January 2024

ISBN : 9781509541515

Price : €15.20

Description

Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial pretensions of its own: modern Iran is in many ways a reflection of its struggle to reconcile its traditions with the challenges of modernity. In this book, Ali Ansari takes readers on a journey through Irans turbulent history. Beginning with the countrys fall from grace as a Great Power in the nineteenth century, he explores its repeated attempts to modernize in a series of revolutionary movements from the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the civil unrest that is breaking out today. In so doing, he reveals how the experience of history and Irans encounter with `modernity have come to define it - and set it on an authoritarian path in confrontation with the West and, often, its own people.

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