Iran Under the Pahlavi Monarchy: Essays in Iranian History, Politics, Culture and Literature

Bringing together eighteen essays from Homa Katouzian, this book explores Iranian history, politics, culture, and Persian literature from mediaeval times through the nineteenth century and into the contemporary period.

Homa Katouzian is an economist, historian, political scientist and literary critic. He has been Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kent, Visiting Professor of Economics at UCLA, Visting Professor of Sociology at UCSD, as well as Research Fellow at St Antony’s College and Member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. His numerous books include The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran; Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer; Iranian History and Politics: The Dialectic of State and Society; and Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature.