The Ayatollahs' Democracy
Hooman Majd
  • Published: 19 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141047515
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $48.00

The Ayatollahs' Democracy

An Iranian Challenge

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28 Mar 2011
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19 Mar 2012
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An unique characterisation of the country for those who wish to understand Iran and Iranians better

Iran is a country with global ambitions, an elaborate political culture, and enormous implications for world peace. How will its diversity of political positions resolve itself? Drawing on privileged access to Iranian society, Hooman Majd has spoken to ayatollahs, politicians and ordinary people to show that, despite the violence of the 2009 elections, the ideal of an Iranian republic is still alive. A personal, candid tour of the political landscape, The Ayatollahs' Democracy is a powerful dispatch from a country at a historic turning point.
  • Published: 19 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141047515
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $48.00
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Praise for The Ayatollahs' Democracy

In vividly readable style ... Majd gives us what's been missing for so long: a nuanced, in-depth portrait of a country both far more sophisticated and far less rigid than western policymakers have yet appreciated

Lesley Hazleton, author of After the Prophet: the epic story of the Shia-Sunni split

No writer knows more about modern Iran than Hooman Majd. Nor does any other commentator write more cogently, or more beautifully

Reza Aslan, author of No god but God and Beyond Fundamentalism