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Author: I. Gershevitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-06-06
Total Pages: 1020
ISBN-13: 9780521200912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 2 covers the period from the formation of the first multi-national empire to Alexander's conquest.
Author: William Bayne Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1975-06-26
Total Pages: 780
ISBN-13: 9780521200936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume provides a comprehensive record of the formative centuries of Islam in Iran.
Author: Richard Tapper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-08-28
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780521583367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Tapper's 1997 book, which is based on three decades of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive documentary research, traces the political and social history of the Shahsevan, one of the major nomadic peoples of Iran. The story is a dramatic one, recounting the mythical origins of the tribes, their unification as a confederacy, and their decline under the Pahlavi Shahs. The book is intended as a contribution to three different debates. The first concerns the riddle of Shahsevan origins, while another considers how far changes in tribal social and political formations are a function of relations with states. The third discusses how different constructions of the identity of a particular people determine their view of the past. In this way, the book promises not only to make a major contribution to the history and anthropology of the Middle East and Central Asia, but also to theoretical debates in both disciplines.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Annie Tracy Samuel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108478425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of how Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) view their history and their roles in the Iran-Iraq War.
Author: Shahbaz Shahnavaz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-01-17
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1134396449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the diplomatic activities and behind-the-scene negotiations which led to the Karun opening, including an 'Assurance' given by Britain to the Shah against a Russian retaliation. It also provides a comprehensive analysis of the region's demography, commerce and industry before the advent of the Karun, and the impact of Britain's political and commercial penetration, which eventually resulted in her total domination of the south. This analytical study of the Anglo-Iranian relationship is unique in its extensive use of primary Persian sources and original material found at the Iranian Foreign Ministry archives which have been accessed by the author for the first time.
Author: David Patrick Houghton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-05-21
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521805094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did a handful of Iranian students seize the American embassy in Tehran in November 1979? Why did most members of the US government initially believe that the incident would be over quickly? Why did the Carter administration then decide to launch a rescue mission, and why did it fail so spectacularly? US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis examines these puzzles and others, using an analogical reasoning approach to decision-making, a theoretical perspective which highlights the role played by historical analogies in the genesis of foreign policy decisions. Using interviews with key decision-makers on both sides, Houghton provides an analysis of one of the United States' greatest foreign policy disasters, the events of which continue to poison relations between the two states. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy analysis and international relations.
Author: Shivan Mahendrarajah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-08
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1108879497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sunni saint cult and shrine of Ahmad-i Jam has endured for 900 years. The shrine and its Sufi shaykhs secured patronage from Mongols, Kartids, Tamerlane, and Timurids. The cult and shrine-complex started sliding into decline when Iran's shahs took the Shiʿi path in 1501, but are today enjoying a renaissance under the (Shiʿi) Islamic Republic of Iran. The shrine's eclectic architectural ensemble has been renovated with private and public funds, and expertise from Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization. Two seminaries (madrasa) that teach Sunni curricula to males and females were added. Sunni and Shiʿi pilgrims visit to venerate their saint. Jami mystics still practice ʿirfan ('gnosticism'). Analyzed are Ahmad-i Jam's biography and hagiography; marketing to sultans of Ahmad as the 'Guardian of Kings'; history and politics of the shrine's catchment area; acquisition of patronage by shrine and shaykhs; Sufi doctrines and practices of Jami mystics, including its Timurid-era Naqshbandi Sufis.
Author: William David Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-02-16
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780521218801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume opens with three introductory chapters to the work as a whole dealing with the geographical background, the chronology and the numismatic history of Judaism.
Author: Ali M. Ansari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-09-24
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 1139560336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-length study of Iranian nationalism in nearly five decades, 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, analysing 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. 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 radicalisation.
