Abrahamian's , published in 1982, treated the political history of Iran from the Constitutional Revolution in the first decade of the twentieth century until the Islamic Revolution in 1979. This new ...

Why choose the 16th century as a starting point for an exploration of the history of modern Iran? The 1979 Iranian Revolution represented the first time in the modern history of the Muslim world that ...

Modern Iran: Roots and Results of RevolutionBy Nikki R. KeddieNew Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 400 pp. $18.50. University of California historian Keddie published the first version of this ...