Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction 1
Part I A Shi'i Empire 31
1 Shi'ism and the Safavid Revolution (1501-1588) 33
2 The Age of 'Abbas I and the Shaping of the Safavid Empire (1588-1666) 76
3 The Demise of the Safavid Order and the Unhappy Interregnums (1666-1797) 126
Part II Reshaping of the Guarded Domains 177
4 The Making of the Qajar Era (1797-1852) 179
5 Naser al-Din Shah and Maintaining a Fragile Balance (1848-1896) 247
6 The Constitutional Revolution: Road to a Plural Modernity (1905-1911) 315
Part III A Nation Recast 387
7 The Great War and the Rise of Reza Khan (1914-1925) 389
8 Reza Shah and the Pahlavi Order (1925-1941) 446
9 Chaotic Democracy, Oil Nationalization, and Denied Hopes (1941-1953) 502
10 The White Revolution and its Opponents (1953-1963) 562
11 Development, Disarray, and Discontent (1963-1977) 617
12 Cultures of Authority and Cultures of Dissent 663
Part IV A Contested Revolution and the Rise of the Islamic Republic 701
13 The Making of the Islamic Revolution (1977-1979) 703
14 The Guardian Jurist and his Advocates 743
15 Consolidation of the Islamic Republic (1979-1984) 773
16 Facing the Foe: The Hostage Crisis, the Iraq-Iran War, and the Aftermath (1979-1989) 820
17 Society and Culture under the Islamic Republic 868
Epilogue 897
Notes 909
Further Readings 915
Index 945