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• Part 1 Palace: from dreams to awakening
• from Persepolis to Jean-Paul Sartre
• between wife and sister
• flowers on the carpet
• don't fire on the crowd!
• even judges
• the impossible renunciation
• what is happening in Guadeloupe?
• visa for Egypt. Part 2 Prison: youngsters as at Vincennes
• surprises in a prison hospital
• the corridor of fear.
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In the first half of this book Naraghi, a prominent Iranian sociologist, engagingly recounts his long conversations with the Shah in the weeks before the revolution. Here is the Shah at bay, a man overtaken by events and unbelievably naive about the causes of the popular agitation against him. Naraghi provides an unparalleled picture of the revolutionary events as seen through the eyes of those at the very centre of power. In the second half of the book the author recalls his 33-month experience in prison - the first testimony to come from a survivor of the Islamic Republic's jails. In a rich, intensely human portrait of his fellow prisoners and his jailers, Naraghi powerfully reconstructs his prison world as a microcosm of the political earthquake that engulfed Iran.
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• pt. 1. The Qajar Period
• 1. The New Education
• 2. Early Experiments
• 3. The Educated Class as a Motor for Change
• 4. The Constitutional Regime
• pt. 2. Education under Reza Shah
• 5. Aims and Dilemmas
• 6. Iranian Students Abroad
• 7. The Founding of Tehran University
• pt. 3. Education under Mohammad Reza Shah
• 8. The "Blessings" of Education
• 9. Pre-University Education
• 10. Higher Education
• 11. Social Origins of the Student Population
• 12. Education -- The Badge of the New Elites
• 13. The Struggle for Academic Freedom.

"To seek knowledge is an Islamic obligation, and religious schools traditionally disseminated the particulars of Islamic thought and culture in Iran. Early in the nineteenth century, however, the lure of modern military technology prompted Iranian leaders to seek Western scientific knowledge. Drawing on a wealth of original research, David Menashri traces the history of Iran's educational system from the departure of the first two Iranian students to Europe in 1811, through the founding of Tehran University in 1935, to the changes in educational policies enacted under the Ayatollah Khomeini. In so doing, Menashri chronicles the wider political and social history of the struggle for control of education between the ulama, or religious elite, and the state." "Paying particular attention to the development of higher education, Menashri assesses the contribution--as well as the limitations--of educational reform in the making of modern Iran. He provides a rich account of the role of Iranians who had been educated abroad and reveals the ambivalence of custodians of power who wanted to import Western skills without Western ideas. Menashri reconstructs the dramatic conflicts and the enduring tensions between groups supporting the values of traditional culture and those promoting Western-oriented "progressive" education. The resulting educational system, he shows, bore fruit in widespread literacy but also contributed to the profound ideological split that led to the overthrow of the Shah in 1979."
"Historians of education, specialists in Middle Eastern studies, and others interested in contemporary Iran will want to read this penetrating book."--Jacket.

• Introduction
• 1. 'Royal despots': state and society under the Qajars
• 2. Reform, revolution, and the Great War
• 3. The iron fist of Reza Shah
• 4. The Nationalist interregnum (1941-53)
• 5. Muhammad Reza Shah's white revolution
• 6. The Islamic Republic.
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In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country has experienced a bitter war with Iraq, the transformation of society under the clergy and, more recently, the expansion of the state and the struggle for power between the old elites, the intelligentsia and the commercial middle class. The author is a compassionate expositor. While he adroitly negotiates the twists and turns of the country's regional and international politics, at the heart of his book are the people of Iran. It is to them and their resilience that this book is dedicated, as Iran emerges at the beginning of the twenty-first century as one of the most powerful states in the Middle East.
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• Introduction
• 1. 'Royal despots': state and society under the Qajars
• 2. Reform, revolution, and the Great War
• 3. The iron fist of Reza Shah
• 4. The Nationalist interregnum (1941-53)
• 5. Muhammad Reza Shah's white revolution
• 6. The Islamic Republic.
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In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country has experienced a bitter war with Iraq, the transformation of society under the clergy and, more recently, the expansion of the state and the struggle for power between the old elites, the intelligentsia and the commercial middle class. The author is a compassionate expositor. While he adroitly negotiates the twists and turns of the country's regional and international politics, at the heart of his book are the people of Iran. It is to them and their resilience that this book is dedicated, as Iran emerges at the beginning of the twenty-first century as one of the most powerful states in the Middle East.
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• Introduction
• On nations without borders
• The dawn of colonial modernity
• A constitutional revolution
• The Pahlavis
• An Islamic revolution
• To reconstruct and reform
• The end of Islamic ideology
• Postscript
• Notes
• Index.

• CONTENTS Acknowledgements Glossary Chronology of Modern Iran Map
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Reza Khan and the Establishment of the Pahlavi State
• 3. Reza Shah: Modernisation and Tradition, 1926-41
• 4. Political Pluralism and the Ascendancy of Nationalism, 1941-53
• 5. The Consolidation of Power, 1953-60
• 6. The 'White Revolution'
• 7. Towards the Great Civilisation
• 8. Revolution, War and 'Islamic Republic'
• 9. The Khatami Presidency
• 10. Conclusion: A Century of Reform and Revolution Guide to Further Research Select Bibliography Index.
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"...Ansari has written a straightforward, though skilfully analytical, history of Iran" Times Literary Supplement (praise for the first edition) Today's Iran is rarely out of the headlines. Labelled by George W Bush as a part of his axis of evil' and perceived as a real nuclear threat by some, Iran is increasingly seen as an enemy of the West. And yet for many Iran remains shrouded in mystery and incomprehensible to Western analysis. Modern Iran offers a comprehensive analysis and explanation of political, social and economic developments in Iran during the 20th century. Since it first published in 2003 Modern Iran has become a staple for students and lecturers wishing to gain a clear understand of the history of this strategically important Middle Eastern Country. The new edition will bring us up to dateand will include: an analysis of the successes and failures of the Khatami Presidency; an examination of the effect of 9/11; the rise of the Reform Movement and the efforts to promote Islamic Democracy; the resistance to democratisation among the hardline elites.
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• Acknowledgements Glossary Chronology of Modern Iran Map
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Reza Khan and the Establishment of the Pahlavi State
• 3. Reza Shah: Modernisation and Tradition, 1926-41
• 4. Political Pluralism and the Ascendancy of Nationalism, 1941-53
• 5. The Consolidation of Power, 1953-60
• 6. The 'White Revolution'
• 7. Towards the Great Civilisation
• 8. Revolution, War and 'Islamic Republic'
• 9. Conclusion: A Century of Reform and Revolution Guide to Further Research Select Bibliography Index.
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Straddled between the world's two major energy basins, the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, and possessing a rich reservoir of hydrocarbon resources as well as diverse minerals, Iran has always been economically significant. The Islamic Revolution thrust the country back onto the political centre-stage, and dramatically altered relations between Iran and the West.This book looks at these developments within an historical context. It charts how Iran sought to respond to the challenge of the West through reform and revolution, and to reverse the deline of the previous century with an ambitious programme of development. Combining detailed historical narrative with comprehensive analysis and explanation, Ali Ansari presents a new interpretation of the complex cultural polity that is modern Iran.
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A history of Iran focuses on the Shah's rise and fall and the causes of the Iranian revolution.
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