Iranian History/Ayatollah Khomeini and The Islamic Revolution
The Iranian Revolution (also known as the Islamic Revolution,[1][2][3][4][5][6] Persian: انقلاب اسلامی, Enghelābe Eslāmi) was the revolution that transformed Iran from a monarchy[7] under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic.[8] It has been called "the third great revolution in history," following the French and Bolshevik revolutions,[9] and an event that "made Islamic fundamentalism a political force ... from Morocco to Malaysia."[10]
References
edit- ↑ Islamic Revolution, Iran Chamber.
- ↑ Islamic Revolution of Iran, MS Encarta.
- ↑ The Islamic Revolution, Internews.
- ↑ Iranian Revolution.
- ↑ Iran Profile, PDF.
- ↑ The Shah and the Ayatollah: Iranian Mythology and Islamic Revolution (Hardcover), ISBN 0-275-97858-3, by Fereydoun Hoveyda, brother of Amir Abbas Hoveyda.
- ↑ An [[w:Iranian monarchy|]] is the kind of monarchy Iran was.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ↑ Marvin Zonis quoted in Wright, Sacred Rage 1996, p.61
- ↑ Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, Norton, (2006), p.121