About the Author

Edmund Burke III is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Ira M. Lapidus is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

"Most books inspired by the Iranian revolution and the political resurgence of Islam are concerned with immediate events, and many focus narrowly on the core states of the Middle East. The 13 case studies in this volume collectively cover a much broader historical and geographic range."--L.M. Lewis, "Choice