Michael Axworthy
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"In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's leadership...
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The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today
Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim clerics in the world, yet its poetry insistently dwells on the joys of life: wine, beauty, sex. Iranian women are subject to one of the most restrictive dress...
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Una historia completa de Irán, desde el Imperio Aqueménida del siglo VI a. C. a la actual República Islámica.
Irán es un país de contradicciones. Es una república islámica, en la que sólo el 1, 4 por ciento de la población asiste a las oraciones del viernes. Su cultura religiosa abarca la mayoría de las dogmáticas chiitas del mundo y sin embargo su poesía se detiene en la insistencia de las alegrías de la vida: el vino, la belleza,...