A history of Iran: empire of the mind

Preface

Acknowledgements

Origins : Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks

The Iranian revival : Parthians and Sassanids

Islam and invasions : the Arabs, Turks and Mongols : the Iranian reconquest of Islam, the Sufis, and the poets

Shiʻism and the Safavids

The fall of the Safavids, Nader Shah, the eighteenth-century interregnum, and the early years of the Qajar dynasty

The crisis of the Qajar monarchy, the revolution of 1905-1911 and the accession of the Pahlavi dynasty

The Pahlavis, and the revolution of 1979

Iran since the revolution : Islamic revival, war and confrontation

From Khatami to Ahmadinejad, and the Iranian predicament.