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Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah - khōmāˈnē, 1900–1989, Iranian Shiite religious leader. Educated in Islam at home and in theological schools, in the 1950s he was designated ayatollah, a supreme religious leader, in the Iranian Shiite community. Khomeini's criticisms of Reza Shah Pahlevi led to his exile in 1964. Settling in Iraq, Khomeini continued his outspoken


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    The Leader, the Led, and the Psyche: Essays in Psychohistory (Chap. 10 "The Hidden Khomeini") » Read Now

    by Bruce Mazlish. 326 pgs.

    ...America + The poem by Ayatollah Khomeini translated by William Chittick...127 10. The Hidden Khomeini, 139 11. Orwell...essays ranging from Nixon and Khomeini to Marx and...
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    The History of Iran (Chap. 8 "Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution" and Chap. 9 "The Khomeini Era") » Read Now

    by Elton L. Daniel. 311 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...With almost three thousand years of history, Iran is home to one of the world's richest and most complex cultures. Yet to the average American the name Iran probably...
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    Iran after Khomeini » Read Now

    by Shireen T. Hunter. 163 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Three years after the departure of the Ayatollah Rouhallah Khomeini, Iran's political future remains uncertain. This volume explores the directions the Islamic regime and, more importantly, the Iranian society and nation are likely to take in the 1990s. The study begins with a brief historical...
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    After Khomeini: The Iranian Second Republic » Read Now

    by Anoushiravan Ehteshami. 246 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Voices of Resurgent Islam (Chap. Seven "Imam Khomeini: Four Levels of Understanding") » Read Now

    by John L. Esposito. 294 pgs.

    ...biographical studies of men like Ayatullah Khomeini, Muammar Qaddafi, Sayyid Qutb. It is...Anderson 134 Seven Imam Khomeini: Four Levels of Understanding, Michael...etc...
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    Shi'ism, Resistance, and Revolution (Chap. 3 "Shi'ism as Interpreted by Khomeini: An Ideology of Revolutionary Violence") » Read Now

    by Martin Kramer. 328 pgs.

    ...foremost among them Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It was not the notion...adhered to the Shia. The Ayatollah Khomeini has been quoted as defining...particular, its "ruling...
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    Revolution and War ("Khomeini's Revolutionary Program" begins on p. 212) » Read Now

    by Stephen M. Walt. 363 pgs.

    Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so and suggests how the risk of conflicts brought on by domestic upheaval might be reduced in the future. In doing so, he...
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