In a radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country's traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis, and the birth of the Islamic Republic. The first edition was named the Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2009. This second edition brings the narrative up to date, with the Green uprisings of 2009, the second Ahmadinejad administration, the election of Rouhani, and the Iran nuclear deal. Ervand Abrahamian, who is one of the most distinguished historians writing on Iran today, is a compassionate expositor, and at the heart of the book is the people of Iran, who have endured and survived a century of war and revolution.

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A History of Modern Iran

For ethnography in political geography: Experiencing and re-imagining Ferghana Valley boundary closures

A History of Modern Iran: A political who's who of modern Iran

Introduction Part I. An Imperial Ecology: 1. Regions, resources, and settlement 2. Growth and its limits 3. Disasters of the later sixteenth century 4. Land at the margins: Karaman and Larende Part II. The Little Ice Age Crisis: 5. The Little Ice Age in the Near East 6. The great drought 7. The Celali Rebellion 8. In the wake of the Celalis: climate and crisis in the seventeenth century Part III. Ecological Transformation: 9. Desert and sown 10. City and country 11. Provisioning and commerce Conclusion.

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

(1993). Staging the emperor's new clothes: dress codes and nation‐building under Reza Shah. Iranian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 3-4, pp. 209-233.

Staging the emperor's new clothes: dress codes and nation‐building under Reza Shah

(1975). Forced migration in Iran during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Iranian Studies: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 199-215.

Forced migration in Iran during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Of all man's cultural badges, that of language is perhaps the most intimately felt and tenaciously defended. Even chauvinists who are prepared to concede under pressure that language, race, and culture are not the same thing—that their national ethnicity may be mixed, their religion imported, their culture synthetic to a degree—will still cling to the national language as the last bastion of irrational totemic pride. Hence, one of the most controversial features of the programs of westernization and modernization fostered by Kemal Ataturk in Turkey and Reza Shah in Iran was that of state-sponsored language reform, characterized chiefly by attempts to “purify” Turkish and Persian of their centuries-old accretion of Arabic loanwords. A case study of this process also affords some insight into the differing attitudes to national social reforms in Turkey and in Iran, and among the respective regimes, intelligentsia, and masses, which might help to explain why on balance one “succeeded” while the other “failed.”

Language Reform in Turkey and Iran

Persian and Tajik

yuzyilin ortalarinda veya ikinci yarisinda kokeni belirsiz yeni bir gocebe grup olarak ortaya cikiyor. Bizans kaynaklarinda Cionitler, bazi kaynaklarda Kidariler, Kidari Hanlari. Henuz ispat edilemeyen bir hipoteze gore Kidara isimli biri tarafindan kurulmus Kidara beyligi. Semerkant bolgesine kuzeyden geldiler. Dorduncu yuzyilin sonlarinda Hindikus daglarinin guneyini fethettiker, Pencab dahil olmak uzere. Neticede bu atlas Orta Asya uzerine calisanlara son derecede fayda saglar

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An Historical Atlas of Central Asia

FEW societies have placed the ideal of justice on so high a pedestal as has Iran. From Achaemenid through Sasanian and Islamic times it has been extolled as a major, if not the supreme, virtue in a ruler; promptness of retribution and redress has been stipulated as a primary duty, and the equitable treatment of all classes of society has constantly been advanced as the foundation of the economic and political stability of the state. This principle, the \"Circle of Justice,\" is the keynote of the Mirrors for Princes literature,1 which furnishes innumerable examples of the ruler (usually Nushirawan the Just, i.e., Chosroes I, A.D. 531-79) not only as the fountainhead of justice in general, but as the redresser of particular wrongs and the protector of the rights of the individual subject against the transgressions of the powerful and of his own administrators. For every unjust action committed in his name, whether he was aware of it or not, was a dereliction of his divinely delegated responsibility, to be made good before the Supreme Judge should call him to account; he was thus expected not only to tolerate but positively to welcome the advice of a minister on how best to govern, and the implied criticism of a wronged subject appealing for redress. This noble theory is obviously fallible in practice. The ruler cannot be everywhere at once; he cannot be expected to burrow through impacted bureaucratic strata to ferret out an unfair subordinate or system, and the subject himself may be prevented from appealing in person by ignorance or intimidation. In the words of the late Edward Kracke: \"In most cultures the myths of royal justice seem to precede the practical petitioning devices for which they prepared the way.\"2 One such early device was a drum, or more commonly a bell, set up outside the ruler's court so that any petitioner could call attention to his case. Such arrangements are reported of China in the second century B.C.; of Iran under the Sasanian kings; and later in India, Japan, and Thailand.3 But this smacks rather of a public relations stunt than a practical and universal mechanism of appeal. A similar device also widely attested-the sealed complaints box, with a slot for written petitions-is open to abuse by becoming a receptacle for malicious anonymous denunciations.4 A truly practical and impartial appeals system requires an intermediary official or officials to encourage, verify, assess, and present complaints. Such a system did evolve in China, from a corps of imperial investigators concerned with

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Forced migration in Iran during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Language Reform in Turkey and Iran

Persian and Tajik

An Historical Atlas of Central Asia

Justice for the Underprivileged: The Ombudsman Tradition of Iran