Author: Martin, Vanessa
Title: Creating an Islamic State : Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran
Description: London / New York, I.B.Tauris & Co. (2000). orig. boards, dustwrapper.. xv,248 pp, 22x14cm, Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies, 24.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Historical Backround: Religion & State; Early Years & the Influence of 'Irfan; Restructuring Organization & the Emergence of the Nahzat; Mutahhari: Towards an Islamic Ideology & the Battlle for Control of Political Islam; Visions of the Islamic State: The Khomeini Version; Other Islamist Movements; The Establishment of the Islamic State; The Western Media & the Iranian Revolution; The Contemporary Muslim Perspective on the Iranian Revolution.

Keywords: Iranian Political History, Revolutionary Iran, Islamic Revolution, Political Islam, Shi'ite Shi'a Shia, Ayatollah Khomeini, Politics, Biography, Islamist Movement