Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist - Milestone Documents

Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist

( 1970 )

Further Reading

Books

  • Arjomand, Said Amir. Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  • Bakhash, Shaul. The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
  • Brumberg, Daniel. Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
  • Coughlin, Con. Khomeini's Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam. New York: Ecco, 2009.
  • Dabashi, Hamid. Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. New York: New York University Press, 1993.
  • Hoveyda, Fereydoun. The Shah and the Ayatollah: Iranian Mythology and Islamic Revolution. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003.
  • Keddie, Nikki. Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1981.
  • Wright, Robin. In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Web Sites

  • Fukuyama, Francis. “Authoritarian Iran, Islam and the Rule of Law.” Livemint.com Web site. http://www.livemint.com/2009/07/28204901/Authoritarian-Iran-Islam-and.html.
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