Book contents
- Revolutionary World
- Revolutionary World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Global Revolution
- 1 The Atlantic Revolutions
- 2 The Revolutionary Waves of 1848
- 3 The Worlds of the Paris Commune
- 4 The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
- 5 The Global Red Revolution
- 6 The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919
- 7 The Third World Revolutions
- 8 The Global Islamic Revolution
- 9 The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989
- 10 The Arab Uprisings
- Islands of Global Revolution
- Index
8 - The Global Islamic Revolution
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Book contents
- Revolutionary World
- Revolutionary World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Global Revolution
- 1 The Atlantic Revolutions
- 2 The Revolutionary Waves of 1848
- 3 The Worlds of the Paris Commune
- 4 The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
- 5 The Global Red Revolution
- 6 The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919
- 7 The Third World Revolutions
- 8 The Global Islamic Revolution
- 9 The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989
- 10 The Arab Uprisings
- Islands of Global Revolution
- Index
Summary
The last years of the 1970s and early 1980s witnessed an unprecedented growth of radical Islamic movements throughout the greater Middle East and North Africa from Pakistan to the Sudan. The climax of this process, and its most consequential trajectory, was no doubt the 1978–1979 Iranian Revolution and the emergence of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was a revolution in the classic sense with instantaneous and vast popular support and with an Islamic ideological core that throughout the 1980s gradually evolved into a theocratic doctrine.
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- Revolutionary WorldGlobal Upheaval in the Modern Age, pp. 192 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021