The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution

Abbas Milani

ISBN 10: 0934211884 / ISBN 13: 9780934211888

Published by Mage Pub, 2003

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illustrated edition. 400 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
• Publisher: Mage Pub
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0934211884
• ISBN 13: 9780934211888
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.66 kilograms

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Synopsis

Who lost Iran? How and why did a country, never richer, never more educated, its women never more liberated erupt in a fundamentalist revolution? The answer can be found in the enthralling life and tragic death of one man.

Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitanism against Persian isolationism, secularism against religious fundamentalism, and ultimately civil society and democracy against authoritarianism.

The Persian Sphinx is biography at its most powerful and reads like a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy. It will reward the general reader and the scholar alike.

About the Author

Raised in Iran, Abbas Milani was sent to be educated in California in the 1960s. He became politically active and in 1974 received a PhD. in Political Science. He returned to Tehran and taught at the National University but was imprisoned by the Pahlavi regime in 1977. After the revolution he became a professor at Tehran University, but in 1986 he emigrated to the United States. He is currently Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at the College of Notre Dame in California. His works include, Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir, and a translation of Manuchehr Irani's King of the Benighted.