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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: A Shi‘i Empire
• One: Shi‘ism and the Safavid Revolution (1501–1588)
• Two: The Age of ‘Abbas I and the Shaping of the Safavid Empire (1588–1666)
• Three: The Demise of the Safavid Order and the Unhappy Interregnums (1666–1797)
• Part II: Reshaping of the Guarded Domains
• Four: The Making of the Qajar Era (1797–1852)
• Five: Naser al-Din Shah and Maintaining a Fragile Balance (1848–1896)
• Six: The Constitutional Revolution: Road to a Plural Modernity (1905–1911)
• Part III: A Nation Recast
• Seven: The Great War and the Rise of Reza Khan (1914–1925)
• Eight: Reza Shah and the Pahlavi Order (1925–1941)
• Nine: Chaotic Democracy, Oil Nationalization, and Denied Hopes (1941–1953)
• Ten: The White Revolution and Its Opponents (1953–1963)
• Eleven: Development, Disarray, and Discontent (1963–1977)
• Twelve: Cultures of Authority and Cultures of Dissent
• Part IV: A Contested Revolution and the Rise of the Islamic Republic
• Thirteen: The Making of the Islamic Revolution (1977–1979)
• Fourteen: The Guardian Jurist and His Advocates
• Fifteen: Consolidation of the Islamic Republic (1979–1984)
• Sixteen: Facing the Foe: The Hostage Crisis, the Iraq-Iran War, and the Aftermath (1979–1989)
• Seventeen: Society and Culture under the Islamic Republic
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Further Readings
• Index