TY - BOOK AU - Axworthy,Michael TI - History of Iran : empire of the mind SN - 9780465008889 AV - DS272 .A94 2008 U1 - 955 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Basic Books KW - Iran KW - History KW - To 640 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-323) and index; Origins : Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks -- The Iranian revival : Parthians and Sassanids -- Islam and invasions : the Arabs, Turks and Mongols--the Iranian reconquest of Islam, the Sufis, and the poets -- Shiʻism and the Safavids -- The fall of the Safavids, Nader Shah, the eighteenth-century interregnum, and the early years of the Qajar dynasty -- The crisis of the Qajar monarchy, the revolution of 1905-1911, and the accession of the Pahlavi dynasty -- The Pahlavis and the revolution of 1979 -- Iran since the revolution : Islamic revival, war, and confrontation -- From Khatami to Ahmadinejad, and the Iranian predicament UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip086/2007049157.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0837/2007049157-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0837/2007049157-d.html ER -