Iran : politics, history and literature / / Homa Katouzian

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808701903321
• Autore: Katouzian Homa
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-17290-4; 0-203-08131-5; 1-299-27909-0; 1-136-17291-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Collana: Iranian studies ; ; 15
• Disciplina: 955
• Soggetti: Persian literature - History and criticism; Iran Civilization; Iran Politics and government; Iran History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. History and politics -- pt. 2. Persian literature.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make modernisation possible, and the second, to overthrow the absolute and arbitrary state, though this time mainly under the banner of religion and Marxism-Leninism and anti-Westernism. Neither of the