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The Iranian Revolution And The Rise Of Militant Islam
Ecco
February 2009
On Sale: February 1, 2009
320 pages ISBN: 0061687146 EAN: 9780061687143 Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Saddam comes the definitive
biography of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution and
how his fundamentalist legacy has forever influenced the
course of Iran's relationship with the West. In February 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to
Tehran after nearly fifteen years in exile and received a
hero's welcome. Just as the new world order sought to purge
the communist ideologies of the Cold War, the religious
doctrine of Islamic fundamentalism emerged to pose an even
greater threat to post-Iron Curtain stability—and Khomeini
would mastermind it into a revolution. Khomeini's Ghost is
the account of how an impoverished young student from a
remote area of southern Iran became the leader of one of the
most dramatic upheavals of the modern age, and how his
radical Islamic philosophy now is at the heart of the
current conflict between Iran and the West. Con Coughlin draws on a wide variety of Iranian sources,
including religious figures who knew and worked with
Khomeini both in exile and in power. Compelling and timely,
Khomeini's Ghost is essential reading for anyone wishing to
understand what lies at the center of many of the world's
most intractable conflicts.
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