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 religious
doctrine of Islamic fundamentalism emerged to pose an even greater threat to
post-Iron Curtain stability—and Khomeini would mastermind it into a revolution.
Khomeini's Ghost is the account of how an impoverished young student from
a remote area of southern Iran became the leader of one of the most dramatic
upheavals of the modern age, and how his radical Islamic philosophy now is at
the heart of the current conflict between Iran and the West. Con Coughlin draws
on a wide variety of Iranian sources, including religious figures who knew and
worked with Khomeini both in exile and in power.
Compelling and timely, Khomeini's Ghost is essential reading for anyone
wishing to understand what lies at the center of many of the world's most
intractable conflicts.
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"Coughlin offers a serviceable biography of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a brief history of his reign and an even briefer history of Iran in an account that is regrettably taciturn on his continuing influence." - Publishers Weekly.
"A valuable study of three decades of a defiant radical Islamic regime." - Kirkus Reviews.
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