The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
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The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
Book Details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Iran
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN-13
- 9780934211611
- ISBN-10
- 0934211612
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ISBN: 0934211612
Author: Milani, Abbas
Condition: Used
Who lost Iran? How and why did a country, never richer, never more educated, its women never more liberated erupt in a fundamentalist revolution? The answer can be found in the enthralling life and tragic death of one man.Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitanism against Persian isolationism, secularism against religious fundamentalism, and ultimately civil society and democracy against authoritarianism.The Persian Sphinx is biography at its most powerful and reads like a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy. It will reward the general reader and the scholar alike.
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