http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2004/09/20#iran <P>By which I mean the modern country, especially since the beginning of the 20th century, and not the whole previous history of Persianate culture... <P>See also: <a href="afghanistan.html">Afghanistan</a>; <a href="central-asia.html">Central Asia</a>; <a href="islam.html">Islam</a>; <a href="islamists.html">Islamism</a>; <a href="revolution.html">Revolution</a>; <ul>Recommended: <li>Gilles Keppel, <cite>Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam</cite> [Has an excellent chapter on the Iranian revolution, and later state policy] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Geneive Abdo, <cite>Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran</cite> <li>Ervand Abrahamian, <citE>Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6c6006wp/">online</a>] <li>Kathryn Babayan, <cite>Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran</cite> <li>Tara Bahrampour, <citE>To See and See Again: A Lie in Iran and America</cite> <li>Frederik Barth, <cite>Nomads of South Persia; The Baseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy</cite> <li>Maziar Behrooz, <cite>Rebels with a Cause; The Failure of the Left in Iran</cite> <li>Cheryl Benard and Zalmay Khalizad, <cite>The Government of God: Iran's Islamic Republic</cite> <li>Ryszard Kapuscinski, <cite>Shah of Shahs</cite> <li>Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, <cite>Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804--1946</cite> <li>Nikki R. Keddie, <cite>Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran</cite> <li>Stephen Kinzer, <cite>All the Shah's Men</cite> <li>Reinhold Loeffler, <cite>Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village</cite> <li>Vanessa Martin, <cite>Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran</cite> <li>Rudi Matthee, <cite>The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500--1900</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8041.html">Blurb, introduction</a>] <li>Abbas Milani, <cite>Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran</cite> <li>Ali Mirsepassai, <cite>Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran</cite> <li>Martin Riesebrodt, <cite>Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran</cite> <li>Rouhi Shafii, <cite>Scent of Saffron: Three Generations of an Iranian Family</cite> <li>Edward Shirley, <cite>Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran</cite> <li>Alison Wearing, <cite>Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey</cite> </ul>