Iranian history was long told through a variety of stories and legend, tribal lore and genealogies, and tales of the prophets. But in the late nineteenth centur

A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first

An introduction to the history of Iran since 1800, covering key events up to the current Islamic Republic.

In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy offers a richly textured and authoritative history of Iran from the 1979 revolution to the present.

Richard Tapper's 1997 book, which is based on three decades of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive documentary research, traces the political and social histor