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Arjomand, Said Amir: TURBAN FOR THE CROWN, New York Oxford University Press, USA 1988
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The Iranian revolution still baffles most Western observers. Few considered the rise of theocracy in a modernized state possible, and even fewer thought it might result from a popular revolution. Moreover, the Shah's well-equipped army was still intact when he fled, oil-rich Iran faced no financial crisis, and the peasantry had no part in the rebellion. In The Turban for the Crown, Said Amir Arjomand provides a thoughtful and painstakingly researched account that makes the turmoil in Iran intelligible to the general reader and that explains the import of this singular event for our understanding of revolutions. To provide crucial historical background, Arjomand traces the history of Shi'ism in Iran, ranging from its establishment as the state religion in 1501 to the ascendency of Reza Shah and the threat his creation of a modern state bureaucracy posed to Shi'ite institutions. He then describes how, when the state built by Reza Shah began to crumble, the millenarianism inherent in Shi'ism, combined with Khomeini's charismatic leadership, facilitated the emergence of Khomeini as a messianic anti-monarch...how the Shah's indecisiveness neutralized the Army and allowed the revolution to gain momentum...how the massive infusion of petrodollars into the economy--and the blatant political corruption that resulted--turned the urban middle-class against the Shah...and how Khomeini disposed of Bakhtiar, Bani-Sadr, and Bazargan, consolidated clerical rule, and established a constitution based completely on a new interpretation of Islamic principles. Unmatched in originality, historical depth, and accuracy, The Turban for the Crown is filled with insight into the Iranian revolution,the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East, and their implications for American foreign policy. Synopsis The Iranian revolution still baffles most Western observers. Few considered the rise of theocracy in a modernized state possible, and even fewer thought it might result from a popular revolution. Moreover, the Shah's well-equipped army was still intact when he fled, oil-rich Iran faced no financial crisis, and the peasantry had no part in the rebellion. In The Turban for the Crown, Said Amir Arjomand provides a thoughtful and painstakingly researched account that makes the turmoil in Iran intelligible to the general reader and that explains the import of this singular event for our understanding of revolutions. To provide crucial historical background, Arjomand traces the history of Shi'ism in Iran, ranging from its establishment as the state religion in 1501 to the ascendency of Reza Shah and the threat his creation of a modern state bureaucracy posed to Shi'ite institutions. He then describes how, when the state built by Reza Shah began to crumble, the millenarianism inherent in Shi'ism, combined with Khomeini's charismatic leadership, facilitated the emergence of Khomeini as a messianic anti-monarch...how the Shah's indecisiveness neutralized the Army and allowed the revolution to gain momentum...how the massive infusion of petrodollars into the economy--and the blatant political corruption that resulted--turned the urban middle-class against the Shah...and how Khomeini disposed of Bakhtiar, Bani-Sadr, and Bazargan, consolidated clerical rule, and established a constitution based completely on a new interpretation of Islamic principles. Unmatched in originality, historical depth, and accuracy, The Turban for the Crown is filled with insight into the Iranian revolution,the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East, and their implications for American foreign policy. Annotation A thoughtful, painstakingly researched, and intelligible account of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran which reveals the importance of this event. <P> Biography - About the Author: Said Amir Arjomand is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A former member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, he is the author Hardcover 25 cm.

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Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan Band 37, 2005. (AMIT) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut - Eurasien-Abteilung Außenstelle Teheran (AMIT) - Berlin: Reimer, 2005.
Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Helwing, B./Özfirat, A. (Eds.), Mountains and Valleys. A symposium on highland - lowland interaction in the Bronze Age settlement systems of Eastern Anatolia, Transcaucasia and Northwestern Iran 9.-13. August 2004, Van, Turkey -- Fazeli Nashli, H., Abbasnezhad Sereshti, R., Social transformation and interregional interaction in the Qazvin Plain during the 5th, 4th and 3rd millennia B.C -- Marro, C, Cultural duality in Eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasia in Late Prehistory (c. 4200-2800 B.C.) -- Ökse, T. A., Early Bronze Age settlement pattern and cultural structure of the Sivas region Rothman, M. S., Transcaucasians: Settlement, migration, and trade in the Kura-Araxes periods -- Di Nocera, G. M., Mobility and stability: Preliminary observations on Early Bronze Age settlement organisation in the Malatya Plain -- Areshian, G. E., Early Bronze Age settlements in the Ararat Plain and its vicinity -- Ashurov, S. G., An introduction to Bronze Age sites in the Sarur plain -- Dönmez, S., The Central Black Sea Region and the Kelkit River basin settlements in the Bronze Age -- Krol I, S., Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Orumiye Basin -- Fahimi, H., Kura-Araxes type pottery from Gilän and the eastern extension of the Early Trans-caucasian Culture -- Rubinson, K. S., Second millennium B.C. painted potteries and problems of terminologies Özfirat, A., Transhumance on the Eastern Anatolian High Plateau in the 2nd mill. B.C -- BartI, P. V., The Middle Bronze Age on the Upper Tigris: new evidence from the excavations at Giricano and Ziyaret Tepe -- Sevin, V., Who were the naked warriors of Hakkari? -- Mustafayev, M. M., Narimankend necropolis -- Bedianashvili, G., The Namgalamitsa Barrows and their cultural environment -- Apakidze, J., Towards the study of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age settlements and settlement systems of the Colchian Culture in Western Georgia -- Azarnoush, M. and Helwing, B., Recent archaeological research in Iran - Prehistory to Iron Age -- Boroffka, N. G. O./Sorrel, Ph./Alimov, K., Baratov, S., Rachimov, K., Saparov, N., Sirinov, T., Reinhardt, C. und Wünnemann, B., Prospektionen am südlichen Aralsee, Uzbekistan -- Yagodin, V. N., The Medieval Aral Sea Crisis -- Bertram, J.-K. und P'icxelauri, K., Vorbericht zu den Ausgrabungsarbeiten in Udabno (Ostgeorgien) im Jahre 2005 -- Cavusoglu, R., A unique Urartian belt in the Van Museum -- Salvini M., Der Turmtempel (susi) von Bastäm -- Bajpakov, K. M. und Ternovaja, G. A., Tönerne Architekturornamentik aus Zetysu -- Hel win g, B., Early mining and metallurgy on the western Iranian Plateau: First results of the Iranian - German archaeological research at Arismän, 2000-2004 -- Nachrurf: Manfred Osman Korfmann. 26.04.1942-12.07.2005 (M. Özdogan).

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