Reign Of The AyatollahsFive years after the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy, Iran remains convulsed by political upheaval and embroiled in international conflict. Shock waves from the Iranian events have stirred unrest in the Middle East from Lebanon to Saudi Arabia, fed Islamic revivalism elsewhere in the Islamic world, and undermined the American position in this strategic region. Meanwhile, amid all this bewildering upheaval, the revolution has given birth to the modern world's first quasi-theocratic state run by orthodox clerics according to Islamic law. This book is a riveting analysis of the Iranian revolution, its economic, religious, and social turmoil, and its international consequences. |
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... Shi'a * ; the Arab states are predominantly Sunni . The Sunni clerics have not normally assumed the oppositional and political role played by Iran's Shi'a clerics . Age - old Arab - Iranian and Sunni - Shi'a animosities persist ...
... Shi'a * ; the Arab states are predominantly Sunni . The Sunni clerics have not normally assumed the oppositional and political role played by Iran's Shi'a clerics . Age - old Arab - Iranian and Sunni - Shi'a animosities persist ...
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... the day . In the 1970s Motahhari led a discussion group on Islam in his home , which was attended by many lay intellectuals . Beheshti , who had spent the 1965–71 period as head of the Shi'a 41 Khomaini : The " Idol Smasher "
... the day . In the 1970s Motahhari led a discussion group on Islam in his home , which was attended by many lay intellectuals . Beheshti , who had spent the 1965–71 period as head of the Shi'a 41 Khomaini : The " Idol Smasher "
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... Shi'a population , centered on the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala . There was a tradition of political militancy in these shrine cities which in the 1970s came to be expressed partly through an underground movement , al - Da'wa al ...
... Shi'a population , centered on the shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala . There was a tradition of political militancy in these shrine cities which in the 1970s came to be expressed partly through an underground movement , al - Da'wa al ...
Contents
The Collapse of the Old Order | 9 |
Khomaini The Idol Smasher | 19 |
Bazargan A Knife Without the Blade | 52 |
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