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Vanguard of the Imam : religion, politics, and Iran's revolutionary guards / Afshon Ostovar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostovar, Afshon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iran. Sipāh-i Pāsdārān-i Inqilāb-i Islāmī.
- Iran.
- Civil-military relations--Iran.
- Civil-military relations.
- Iran--History, Military.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work is about the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its ascent to become one of the most formidable entities in Iran and the Middle East. It follows the organization from its birth in the midst of the 1979 revolution through the succeeding decades of the Islamic Republic's maturation.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- 1. Introduction
- Brief Overview of the IRGC
- Conceptualizing the IRGC
- Pro-clerical Activism
- Primacy of the Leader
- Conflict and State Formation
- Chapters and Questions
- 2. From Ali to Khomeini
- The Formation of Shiite Islam
- Rise of the Clergy
- The Islamic Movement
- Revolutionary Ideology
- 3. Vanguard of the Imam
- Enter the Vanguard
- Roots and Radicals
- Khomeini Über Alles
- One System to Rule Them All
- 4. The Imposed War
- Invasion
- A Stymied War Effort
- Death of the Opposition
- The Islamic Republic Strikes Back
- 5. The Long War
- The International Dimension
- Running into Walls
- In the Path of the Divine
- A Fleeting Taste of Victory
- The Bitter End
- 6. Exporting the Revolution
- Revolutionary Internationalism
- A Conservative Turn
- Onward to Jerusalem
- The Revolution Comes to Lebanon
- Fall of the Radicals
- 7. Warriors of Karbala
- The Islamic Model Army
- Power of the Pen
- Wartime Cultural Activism
- Visual Identity
- Iconology of the Self
- Warriors of Karbala
- 8. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- Postwar Reconstruction under Rafsanjani
- Propagating Virtue, Prohibiting Vice
- Taking Back the Revolution
- 9. The War on Terror
- Axis of Evil
- Electing Ahmadinejad
- An Iran Ascendant
- The Specter of War
- 10. Big Bang, Big Crunch
- "Death to the Dictator!"
- The Soft War
- Springtime
- The Instruments of Coercion
- Knives Out
- 11. In Defense of the Family of the Prophet
- In Defense of Sayyida Zaynab
- A Return to Karbala
- 12. Epilogue
- 13. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-049171-X
- 0-19-049172-8
- 0-19-049170-1
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