Abbas Amanat, “Iran: A Modern History”, 2017.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I: A SHI‘I EMPIRE

ONE: Shi‘ism and the Safavid Revolution (1501–1588).

TWO: The Age of ‘Abbas I and the Shaping of the Safavid Empire (1588–1666).

THREE: The Demise of the Safavid Order and the Unhappy Interregnums (1666–1797).

PART II: RESHAPING OF THE GUARDED DOMAINS.

FOUR: The Making of the Qajar Era (1797–1852).

FIVE: Naser al-Din Shah and Maintaining a Fragile Balance (1848–1896).

SIX: The Constitutional Revolution: Road to a Plural Modernity (1905–1911).

PART III: A NATION RECAST.

SEVEN: The Great War and the Rise of Reza Khan (1914–1925).

EIGHT: Reza Shah and the Pahlavi Order (1925–1941).

NINE: Chaotic Democracy, Oil Nationalization, and Denied Hopes (1941–1953).

TEN: The White Revolution and Its Opponents (1953–1963).

ELEVEN: Development, Disarray, and Discontent (1963–1977).

TWELVE: Cultures of Authority and Cultures of Dissent.

PART IV: A CONTESTED REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC.

THIRTEEN: The Making of the Islamic Revolution (1977–1979).

FOURTEEN: The Guardian Jurist and His Advocates.

FIFTEEN: Consolidation of the Islamic Republic (1979–1984).

SIXTEEN: Facing the Foe: The Hostage Crisis, the Iraq-Iran War, and the Aftermath (1979–1989).

SEVENTEEN: Society and Culture under the Islamic Republic.

 

 

COMMENTS.

Abbas Amanat, “Iran: A Modern History”, 2017 is a as title says a “modern Iranian history”.   ABOVE is a diagram of when “modern history” is as opposed to other historical times.

Old Persian and New Persian are also languages of time eras essential to the culture. Old Persian is the language before 400 BC written in cuneiform’ script. New Persian is in the script after the religious conversion used today.

ABOVE is a table of Iranian chronology that applies to the book by Abbas Amanat, “Iran: A Modern History”, 2017. Abbey Amanat is a professor of history at Yale University, and has written an interesting book on a complex nation that is very readable.