Michael Axworthy is Former Head of the Iran Section of the British Foreign Office from 1998-2000. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Exeter, and the author of Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran.
"This is one of the few must-read books of this year...[E]xcellent
and insightful from beginning to end."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal
Revolution"If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran
you could not do better than this. Michael Axworthy, a
Foreign-Office-expert-turned- academic, has drawn on his own
experience as well as archival research to produce a highly
readable narrative of the Islamic Republic."--Ervand Abrahamian,
Times Higher Education"Balancing scholarly precision with narrative
flair, Mr. Axworthy depicts an Islamic movement that exploited and
distorted traditional Shia beliefs in order to seize and hold on to
power...scholarly rigor and first-class analysis."--The
Economist
"Meticulously fair and scholarly...[A] very fine work that deserves
to be read by anyone interested in the Middle East. Iran is
inevitably still central to events in the region and beyond, not
just through the potential for war over its nuclear program, nor
even because of its continued support for the Assad regime in
Syria, but because it is, as Axworthy says, less a country than a
continent, more a civilization than a nation."--James Buchan, The
Guardian"Because of [the Iranian] election, Revolutionary Iran,
which takes the reader up to the end of 2012, is particularly
well-timed. It will be invaluable for those hoping to make sense of
the coverage. With it, Axworthy has confirmed his position as one
of the most lucid and humane western interpreters of Iran writing
at the moment."--The New Statesman"This book puts much-needed flesh
on the simplistic caricature of Iran."--The Times (UK)"The Shah's
imperial folly and overthrow are described grippingly."--The Daily
Telegraph
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