| Chronology of Significant Events in Iranian History Since 1500 |
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| Introduction |
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3 | (8) |
| I Rise of the Modern State and the Transformation of Society |
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Religion, Government, and the Social Structure in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
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11 | (23) |
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Establishment of Religious Uniformity and Consolidation of Shi`ite Clerical Power in Iran |
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11 | (5) |
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Collapse of the Safavid State and Tribal Domination of Urban Society in the Eighteenth Century |
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16 | (4) |
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The Qajar Government and the Social Structure of Iran in the Nineteenth Century |
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20 | (7) |
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Emergence of the Modern Idea of the State and Failure of Centralizing Reforms |
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27 | (7) |
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The Constitutional Revolution: 1905-1911 |
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34 | (25) |
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Revolution and Parliamentary Democracy: April 1905-June 1908 |
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35 | (5) |
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Constitutional Reforms of the State: 1907-December 1911 |
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40 | (8) |
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Traditionalist Counterrevolution and Tribal Civil War: 1908-March 1912 |
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48 | (9) |
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Compromises in the Constitutional Revolution |
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57 | (2) |
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Formation of the Modern Bureaucratic State in the Twentieth Century |
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59 | (16) |
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Modernization of the State Under Reza Shah |
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59 | (10) |
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Impact of the State on Iranian Society |
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69 | (2) |
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Mohammed Reza Shah's ``White Revolution'' and Its Consequences |
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71 | (4) |
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75 | (16) |
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Sources of Conflict Between the State and Hierocracy |
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75 | (3) |
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Confrontations with the State During the Constitutional Revolution |
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78 | (2) |
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The Era of Pahlavi Modernization |
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80 | (11) |
| II From Temporal to Theocratic Absolutism |
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Khomeini and the Islamic Revolutionary Movement |
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91 | (12) |
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91 | (3) |
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Revolutionary Politicization of the Islamic Movement |
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94 | (6) |
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Charismatic Leadership and Revolutionary Traditionalism |
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100 | (3) |
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The Revolution of February 1979 |
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103 | (31) |
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The Myth of the Islamic Revolution |
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103 | (3) |
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The Revolutionary Alignment of Social Classes |
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106 | (2) |
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The New Middle Class and the Revolution |
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108 | (6) |
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Paralysis and Collapse of the State |
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114 | (5) |
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The Armed Forces and the Revolution |
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119 | (9) |
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The United States and the Iranian Revolution |
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128 | (6) |
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Revolutionary Iran: February 1979-December 1982 |
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134 | (13) |
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Disintegration of the Pahlavi Regime and Establishment of Dual Power |
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134 | (3) |
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The Clerical Coup d'Etat of November 1979 |
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137 | (4) |
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Termination of Dual Power and Direct Clerical Takeover of the State |
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141 | (6) |
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Consolidation of Islamic Theocracy |
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147 | (30) |
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Principles of Legitimacy of Theocratic Government and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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147 | (7) |
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Elimination of Opposition and Normalization |
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154 | (9) |
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Distinctive Institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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163 | (10) |
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Continuities Between Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Iran |
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173 | (4) |
| III Reflections on the Islamic Revolution |
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The Revolutionary Transformation of Shi`ism |
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177 | (12) |
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Transformation of the Shi`ite Theory of Authority |
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177 | (7) |
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Transformation of the Shi`ite Law |
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184 | (5) |
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Significance of the Islamic Revolution: A Comparative Perspective |
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189 | (22) |
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Causes and Preconditions of the Islamic Revolution |
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189 | (13) |
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Teleology of the Islamic Revolution |
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202 | (8) |
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210 | (1) |
| Appendix |
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211 | (10) |
| Notes |
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221 | (28) |
| Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms |
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249 | (6) |
| References |
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255 | (12) |
| Index |
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