Author: Coughlan, Con.
Title: Khomeini's Ghost (the Definitive Account of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution and Its Enduring Legacy).
Description: London Macmillan, 2009. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour & black & white photos, minor edgewear. 370 pp. Con Coughlan provides the definitive biographical account of how an impoverished young student from a remote area of southern Iran came to be the political and the spiritual leader of his country. Drawing on a wide variety of Iranian sources, including religious figures who knew and worked with Khomeini both in exile and in power, he examines the principles of Khomeini's Shiite Islamic Revolution and the impact of his legacy today - including Iran's support for radical Islamic groups, and Iran's commitment to developing an atom bomb. ISBN: 9780230737136

Keywords: biography, society, government, military, middle east, iran, islam 9780230737136


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