Iran Under the Pahlavi Monarchy : Essays in Iranian History, Politics, Culture and Literature (Paperback)

Part I: History and Politics??Introduction? 1. Iran in the Middle Ages: From the Islamic Conquest to the Rise of the Qajars? 2. Arbitrary Despotism and Taxation in Iran? 3. Iran: Developments in the Nineteenth Century: Encounters with Modernity? 4. The Fall of the Qajars? 5. Miracles at the Saqqa-khaneh: Power Struggles, Baha’i Pogrom and Murder of the American Envoy in Tehran? 6. Politics and Poetry in Iran: 1919-1925? 7. Iran under the Pahlavi Monarchy? 8. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 Followed by the Islamic Revolution of 1981? 9. Weststruckness: Its Trials, and Its Tribulations (With Morad Moazami)? 10. Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Review Article? 11.?The Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis Revisited: Iran’s Rejection of the World Bank Intervention and the 1953 Coup? 12. Of the Sins of Khalil Maleki? 13. Interest is not Riba: A Critical Study of Riba and Interest in Islam??Part II: Modern and Classical Literature? 14.?Sadeq Hedayat, Modern Iranian Fiction and the Experience of Modernity? 15. Humour in Hedayat? 16. Was Forugh Farrokhzad a Sinner?? 17. Sa‘di, Lover of Beauty and Advocate of Human Morality? 18. Sa‘di and the Others: The Semi-Rhymed Prose, and ‘Inimitable Facility’ Art Forms