A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind by Michael Axworthy

A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind

Michael Axworthy

384 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim clerics in the world, and ye...

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