Promises of Betrayals: The history that shaped the Iranian Shia clerics by Fazle Chowdhury

A historical sweep that tracks a faction of Shia rebels bent on forming a Shia empire, to the present-day clerical theocracy that is the Islamic Republic of Iran. A story of the slow rise of Shia clerical power in Iran in the backdrop of bitter sectarian dispute, Ottoman rivalry, British imperialism, Russian encroachment, and secularized Persian dynasty.

Year: 2018

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