"Historians of education, specialists in Middle Eastern studies, and others interested in contemporary Iran will want to read this penetrating book."--BOOK JACK

This collection of essays, by a distinguished group of specialists, offers a new and exciting interpretation of Riza Shah's Iran. A period of key importance, th

Iranian history was long told through a variety of stories and legend, tribal lore and genealogies, and tales of the prophets. But in the late nineteenth centur

A succinct and highly readable narrative of modern Iran from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred king