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Empire Of The Mind: A History Of Iran (2000)

by Michael Axworthy(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1850658714 (ISBN13: 9781850658719)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Hurst & Co.

review 1: For an introduction to Iran this seems like a very good place to start. Histories that cover such a huge period of time tend to be dull, but Axeworthy keeps your attention with plenty of anecdotes and an overarching idea of Iran as a “Civilization-state” . In contemporary media Iran is often seen as either baffling or mad, or a combination of the two. Here you get a much better idea of how Iranians might see themselves as inheritors of a longstanding and continuous culture from the earliest times to the present.
review 2: This is a very informative and fair book about Iran/Persia. It covers most historical events (3000 years) and traces the impact that each ruler had for Iran, one of the oldest civilizations remaining on earth. It also contains poems from... more various ages which give you an idea for the cultural and artistic level that persians had achieved. Finally it clarifies many of the stereotypes that western nations have about Iran less

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