Axworthy, Michael. <br/><br/>
A history of Iran :  empire of the mind / 
Michael Axworthy. 
 - New York :  Basic Books,  c2008. 
 - xvii, 341 p. :  maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-323) and index. 
<br/><br/>Origins : Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks -- The Iranian revival : Parthians and Sassanids -- Islam and invasions : the Arabs, Turks and Mongols--the Iranian reconquest of Islam, the Sufis, and the poets -- Shiʻism and the Safavids -- The fall of the Safavids, Nader Shah, the eighteenth-century interregnum, and the early years of the Qajar dynasty -- The crisis of the Qajar monarchy, the revolution of 1905-1911, and the accession of the Pahlavi dynasty -- The Pahlavis and the revolution of 1979 -- Iran since the revolution : Islamic revival, war, and confrontation -- From Khatami to Ahmadinejad, and the Iranian predicament. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780465008889 0465008887 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007049157 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Iran--History.<br/>Iran--History--To 640.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS272  / .A94 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>955