Iran: after the Revolution, Crisis of an Islamic State

Iran: after the Revolution, Crisis of an Islamic State

Saeed Rahnema
Sohrab Behdad

I. B. Tauris

Written by a formidable team of Iranian academics now teaching in universities across the world, ibis is a perceptive, in-deptli study of the current state of Iran’s Islamic Republic. In an extremely analytical and objective style, it draws upon the experiences of those who experienced life under the revolution. Pitched at a high intellectual level, the book's conclusions will be of interest even to general readers. Choice.
The 1979 revolution in Iran was a source of inspiration for Islamic revivalist movements in many Muslim countries. It demonstrated that they can mobilize popular revolutions against seemingly invincible authoritarian regimes and'also spread the hope of liberation for the dispossessed masses of the Middle East. The record of the Islamic Republic in Iran, however, is a sobering lesson for all those who have placed hope in these movements.
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Saeed Rahnema is Associate Professor in the School of Policy Studies. Queen's University. Canada, and was a senior member of the Industrial Management Institute in Tehran from 1971 to 1981.
Sohrab Behdad is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics. Denison University. USA. and was a member of the Faculty of Economics at Tehran University from 1973 to 1983.