Encyclopedia of Islam

Iranian Revolution of 1978–1979

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Further reading: Hamid Algar, trans., Islam and Revo-

lution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini

(Berkeley, Calif.: Mizan Press, 1981); Said A. Arjomand, 

The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, 

Political Order and Societal Change in Shiite Iran from 

the Beginning to 1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago 

Press, 1984); Juan R. Cole and Nikki R. Keddie, eds., 

Shiism and Social Protest (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Uni-

versity Press, 1986); John L. Esposito, ed., The Iranian 

Revolution: Its Global Impact (Gainesville: University 

Presses of Florida, 1990); Nikki Keddie, Modern Iran: 

Roots and Results of Revolution (New Haven, Conn.: Yale 

University Press, 2003); Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle 

of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (New York: 

Simon & Schuster, 1985); Abdulaziz A. Sachedina, The 

Just Ruler in Shiite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority 

of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence (New York: Oxford 

University Press, 1988).