Khomeini's Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam

by Con Coughlin

Book Overview

From the bestselling author of Saddam comes the definitive biography of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution and how his fundamentalist legacy has forever influenced the course of Iran's relationship with the West.

In February 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after nearly fifteen years in exile and received a hero's welcome. Just as the new world order sought to purge the communist ideologies of the Cold War, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061687154
• ISBN13: 9780061687150
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.9"