Religion, Culture and Politics in Iran

This book offers a new interpretation to the social history of religion in Iran from the 1870s to the 1970s. It aims to situate the ''revolutionary'' upheavals of 1977-82 in an extensive narrative context of historical developments over the preceding century, and to relate the ''religious'' elements in that history to other social and cultural issues.

In the author''s analysis, Iran''s revolution w...