Persia/Iran: From Empire to Theocracy
This course explores three thousand years of the political, religious, social, and intellectual history of Persia/Iran. The course will provide students with a background sufficiently broad to enable them to analyze a number of events in the twentieth century that have shaped modern Iranian society: the Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911; the Iranian Oil Crisis, 1951-1953; and the Islamic Revolution of 1979. These three events have had a fundamental impact on the Middle East.
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