The Mantle of the Prophet

“He tells the story of the Iranian Revolution through the lens of the clerics, their views, their ideas, the intellectual and emotional tensions that they experience. And his ability to zero in on the human experiences of the clerics provides the reader with considerable food for thought, about why the Shia clerics were able to lead the revolution and topple one of the most brutal dictatorships in the Middle East, the Shah of Iran, in 1979.” Read more...

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Fawaz A. Gerges, International Relation

“Although this is not a book about Iraq, it is still deeply relevant to later Iraqi history of the 1980s and 90s. It tells the story of the Iranian revolution.” Read more...

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Kanan Makiya, Theologians & Historians of Religion