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Iranian History Books
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,104 ratings — published 2003
A History of Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,594 ratings — published 2008
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,957 ratings — published 2008
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 122 ratings — published 1996
معماى هويدا (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,084 ratings — published 2000
Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (International Library of Iranian Studies)
by (shelved 4 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 173 ratings — published 2007
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,671 ratings — published 2006
Blood & Oil: A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 180 ratings — published 1997
ایران بین دو انقلاب (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,532 ratings — published 1982
Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 75 ratings — published 2009
The Shah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,185 ratings — published 2007
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,858 ratings — published 1982
Iran Under the Safavids (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 86 ratings — published 1980
Iran: A Modern History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 756 ratings — published 2017
The Iran-Iraq War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 373 ratings — published 2013
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (International Library of Iranian Studies)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 98 ratings — published 2008
The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 152 ratings — published 2006
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 47 ratings — published 2005
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,190 ratings — published 2008
Iran's Ministry of Intelligence: A Concise History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 2024
ايران، برآمدن رضاخان، برافتادن قاجار و نقش انگليسیها (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 102 ratings — published 1997
Modern Iran. Roots and Results of Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 292 ratings — published 2003
An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'ati (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 149 ratings — published 1997
Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 76 ratings — published 1999
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,033 ratings — published 2006
America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 852 ratings — published 2020
Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 167 ratings — published 1993
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,057 ratings — published 2012
دو قرن سکوت (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,225 ratings — published 1951
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 668 ratings — published 1985
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 861 ratings — published 2016
The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 705 ratings — published 2013
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 373 ratings — published 2015
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,935 ratings — published 2016
The History of the Sarbadar Dynasty 1336-1381 A.D. and its Sources (Publications in Near and Middle East Studies. Series A, 11)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1971
Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers: The Concept of Evil in Early Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 19 ratings — published 2011
Zoroastrians (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 232 ratings — published 1979
Ancient Persia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 104 ratings — published 1998
Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 35 ratings — published 2003
Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War (General Military)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 77 ratings — published 2007
The Heritage of Persia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 63 ratings — published 1960
The Persians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 62 ratings — published 2006
The Blood of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,586 ratings — published 2007
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 201,746 ratings — published 2007
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 693 ratings — published 2005
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 62 ratings — published 2009
رضا شاه و بریتانیا (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as iranian-history)
avg rating 2.89 — 9 ratings — published 2011
التشيع والتحول في العصر الصفوي (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as iranian-history)
avg rating 3.52 — 65 ratings — published 2001
Курды иранской провинции Керманшах накануне и в период Первой мировой войны
by (shelved 1 time as iranian-history)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008
Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as iranian-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 101 ratings — published 2016
“Parviz continued, “Do you even know why we refer to it as toman?”
“No, never thought about it, why?” Hooman replied with as much spirit as his mask could muster.
“Well, it’s from the Mongolian word tümen, which means ‘unit of ten thousand.’” He gritted his teeth, agitating Hooman more than hearing about his son getting caught and arrested. Money was his only real love. “That terror, Genghis Khan, still lives with us to this day.”
― Tajrish
“No, never thought about it, why?” Hooman replied with as much spirit as his mask could muster.
“Well, it’s from the Mongolian word tümen, which means ‘unit of ten thousand.’” He gritted his teeth, agitating Hooman more than hearing about his son getting caught and arrested. Money was his only real love. “That terror, Genghis Khan, still lives with us to this day.”
― Tajrish
