Book recommendations for Iran's Islamic Revolution?

by Alamifidel

Hi, there are no relevant recommendations so I'll just make a post asking for it.

Current options

  1. The Iranian Revolution: The Islamic Revolution that reshaped the Middle East
  2. Revolutionary Iran: A history of the Islamic Republic

I have just finished "All the Shah's Men", which went through Iran's 1906 constitutional revolution until Operation Ajax that brought down Mossadegh (so preferably not a book that spends a long time going through that). Instead, I wish to buy a book that goes through

  1. the Shah's rule (perhaps not in that great detail compared to..)
  2. the Islamic Revolution, of course

Does anyone have a book suggestion outside of the 2? Otherwise, have you read either? And if so, which one is better? Thank you!

Kugelfang52

Hi there anyone interested in recommending things to OP! While you might have a title to share, this is still a thread on /r/AskHistorians, and we still want the replies here to be to an /r/AskHistorians standard - presumably OP would have asked at /r/history or /r/askreddit if they wanted non-specialist opinion. So give us some indication why the thing you're recommending is valuable, trustworthy, or applicable! Posts that provide no context for why you're recommending a particular podcast/book/novel/documentary/etc, and which aren't backed up by a historian-level knowledge on the accuracy and stance of the piece, will be removed.