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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: modern theocracy
    sub title: Iran's anti-enlightenment revolution endures
  name:
    name part: Farhang, Mansour
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Farhang, Mansour
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Limbert, John
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxviii, 235 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: The Islamic Republic of Iran emerged in 1979, replacing the 54-year-old Pahlavi monarchy in what remains the only explicitly anti-Enlightenment revolution in modern history. Over the past forty-five years, the Islamic Republic has defied expectations by transforming a nation long governed by autocrats into a totalitarian theocracy. In this all-encompassing political order, religious authority supersedes all, and the Supreme Leader serves as the earthly representative-or viceroy-of the Hidden Imam, the messianic figure in Shi`a Islam. Clerics occupy positions of power throughout the state, serving as ministers, legislators, and presidents.his work-intended for students, scholars, and informed general readers-seeks to answer enduring but still vital questions: How did revolutionaries dismantle a seemingly stable monarchy in just one year? How did the religious extremists, after the Shah's fall, outmaneuver their former revolutionary allies-social democrats, Marxists, and religious conservatives-to seize uncontested control? And how has such a seemingly anachronistic system-a modern theocracy-persisted into the 21st century? While these questions are not new, the perspectives offered by the book's two authors are. Both experienced these historic events not just as observers, but as participants--sometimes unwilling ones. They met firsthand with key figures, including Ayatollahs Khomeini, Montazeri, and Khamene'i. With academic backgrounds in history and political science, government service, and deep personal involvement in Iranian affairs before and after 1979, they bring unique insight. Both have taught in universities in Iran and the United States. Their diplomatic careers were upended by the revolution: one was forced to flee Iran to escape arrest; the other was imprisoned for fourteen months
  note: Mansour Farhang, John Limbert
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1979-
  subject:
    topic: Islam and politics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Islam and state
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Politique et gouvernement
  subject:
    topic: Islam et État
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Religion
  classification: DS318.825 .F374 2025
  identifier: 9781568594156
  identifier: 1568594151
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: AZU
    record creation date: 251121
    record change date: 20260301025339.7
    record identifier: in00005692834
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng