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Iran: A Modern History
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This is the best book on history of modern Iran that I have come across to. Although, I wouldn't recommend it for a first read. It's a shame that this has no chance of being translated and published inside Iran, at least legally.
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Reading Progress
May 15, 2018
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to-read
May 15, 2018
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May 15, 2018
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history
May 15, 2018
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history-modern
March 31, 2019
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Started Reading
April 26, 2019
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5.53%
"To a mix of Turkmen messianism and ancestral claims, Isma‘il added a third element of Twelver Shi‘ism. While still in hiding in Lahijan, an old Shi‘i stronghold in Gilan province, some local dignitaries instructed him in the rudiments of Twelver doctrine. As it turned out, Isma‘il himself was not particularly keen on practicing the Twelver (or Ja‘fari) law, ..."
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60
May 21, 2019
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12.17%
"Although a small Armenian printing house with Armenian typeface did exist in New Julfa at the time, the idea of printing seems not to have impressed Iranians for a long time."
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132
June 3, 2019
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24.42%
"Despite its inherent disadvantages, Qajar Iran escaped domination by colonial powers in part because of the dictates of its geography but also because of a degree of resistance displayed by the Qajar state and its subjects. Iran endured within its shrunken borders while many countries in the non-Western world gradually succumbed to colonial rule."
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265
June 5, 2019
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26.91%
"Shi'i legal concern never extended to the areas of public law or attempted to define the social rights and obligations of the individual in the modern sense. Nor did it made the faintest attempt to define the boundaries of state power. Instead, it adamantly adhered to the rituals and rules that regulated the life of the individual."
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292
August 8, 2019
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51.15%
"Despite all the negative publicity surrounding the republican initiative then and later - that it was a backdoor to Reza Khan's dictatorship, contrary to Iranian political tradition and against Islam - its defeat proved a major loss for Iran's political future. It could be argued that Reza Khan's opting for a dynastic monarchy as an alternative to the republic only a year later perpetuated a long tradition of ..."
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555
August 21, 2019
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54.01%
"The arrested growth of the private sector, the widening gap between living standards in the city versus the countryside, and the rise of the state's reliance on independent income through monopolies on commodities and oil revenue were the most significant legacies of the first Pahlavi era. While the state became less dependent on its citizens and the meager revenue it could extract through taxation, it sped up ..."
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586
November 11, 2019
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71.61%
"The increasing Pahlavi power in the 1970s ironically reduced Iran's dependency on the United States at a time when Iranian public perceived US influence to be at its maximum."
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777
February 8, 2020
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Finished Reading
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You're very welcome, my friend. I have seen Amanat's interviews a few times, he is a historian worth listening to. I am planning to read this soon.
Added to my to-read list, with many thanks.