From Zarathustra to Khomeini : populism and dissent in Iran /

From Zarathustra to Khomeini : populism and dissent in Iran /

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Author / Creator:Dorraj, Manochehr, author.
Imprint:Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1990.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 219 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Populism -- Iran.
Islam and politics -- Iran.
Iran -- History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11915667
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Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed January 21, 2016).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-215) and index.
In English.
Summary:Shedding new light on the sources and character of Iran's 1979 Revolution, Manochehr Dorraj explores the genesis and development of popular movements and dissent in Iranian history. Dorraj draws on Iran's pre-Islamic religious culture and on its legacy of Islamic folk heroes and the millenarian movements, as well as on more recent history, to illuminate current events. His investigation of the peculiarities of Islam, of populism, and of Iranian social development is a major contribution to the ongoing debate regarding the essence of the Iranian revolution and, more generally, the political dynamics underlying social change in the Middle East.

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