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Michael Axworthy is the author of The Sword of Persia and Iran: Empire of the Mind, which established him as one of the world's principal experts on the country. He was head of the Iran Section of the British Foreign Office from 1998-2000 and senior lecturer and Director of the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Exeter. He died in 2019.

The history of 18th century Iran has been neglected but is vital for understanding contemporary Iran, and is a fascinating drama in its own right. This book presents contributions from the leading experts on this period worldwide, and is a major advance in this important area of Iranian Studies.

Da quattromila anni la storia iraniania è un microcosmo che racchiude tutti i tratti della storia dell'umanità intera: imperi, rivoluzioni, invasioni, arte, architettura, conquistatori, uomini di pensiero, scrittori e poeti, mistici e legislatori, leader carismatici e tiranni dalla leggenda nera. Un marziano che volesse imparare tutta la gamma delle azioni dell'umanità, troverebbe nella storia iraniana un ottimo corso introduttivo. In Occident...

In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's lea...

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An essential overview of Iran, a complex and important nation that has occupied world headlines for nearly four decades.

An essential overview of Iran, a complex and important nation that has occupied world headlines for nearly four decades.

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La storia dell'Iran è piena di violenza e di drammi: invasioni, conquistatori, battaglie e rivoluzioni. Poiché l'Iran ha una storia più lunga della maggior parte degli altri paesi, ed è più grande di molti di essi, questa drammaticità è maggiore. Ma la storia dell'Iran è molto di più: ci sono religioni, influssi, movimenti intellettuali e idee che hanno cambiato le cose all'interno dell'Iran, ma anche al di fuori di esso, e nel mondo intero. O...

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Nader Shah, ruler of Persia from 1736 to 1747, took eighteenth-century Iran from political collapse to become the dominant power in the region, recovering Herat and Kandahar, conquering Moghul Delhi, plundering the enormous treasures of India, repeatedly defeating Ottoman Turkey, and overrunning most of what is now Iraq. But suspicion and avarice led him to persecute the Persian people as savagely as any foreign conqueror had done. This book r...

A lucid and illuminating history of Iran from its origins to the present day. 'The best single-volume introduction to Iranian history' "New Statesman

Dit boek vertelt de glorieuze geschiedenis van Iran, een van de oudste beschavingen van de wereld. De auteur begint bij het Achaemenidische Rijk van Cyrus de Grote (zesde eeuw v.Chr.), en eindigt met de Islamitische Republiek. Hij laat op fraaie wijze de eigenheid van de Iraanse identiteit zien, waarbij nadruk ligt op de culturele, godsdienstige en intellectuele aspecten, en de mensen die er vorm aan gaven en geven. In de tijd dat opeenvolgend...

Die Griechen zählten die Perser zu den kulturlosen Barbaren - aus reiner Eifersucht und Konkurrenzgefühlen, denn sie waren ihnen oft unterlegen. Trotzdem prägt diese Klassifizierung unser Geschichtsbild bis heute. Dabei ist der Iran ein Weltreich des Geistes von ungeahnter Vielfalt und anhaltender Bedeutung. Schon früh entwickelten sich dort ein ausgeklügeltes Handelssystem, eine differenzierte Religion und eine reichhaltige Literatur. Gerade ...