Autorentext

Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He lives in North Haven, CT.

Klappentext

A meticulously realised history of Iran, combining chronological and thematic approaches to the subject to offer a fuller understanding of Iran as it stands in the present.

Zusammenfassung
A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first