Following the dictum that biography is the ultimate history, Milani (Iranian studies, Stanford U.) profiles 150 people to recount the history of Iran from the outbreak of World War II to the Islamic R
Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social reformer, a romantic egomaniac, and a deeply con
A noted scholar of contemporary Iran, Milani looks at the history of the Iran-U.S relationship, honing in on the myth of the U.S. as the "Great Satan." In chapters dealing with the fall of the Shah, t
Sufism is generally perceived as being spiritually focused and about the development of the self. However, Sufi orders have been involved historically as important civic and political actors in the Mu
Daughter of New York's most renown mob boss, Lylie runs away from her troubles in England after her mother mysteriously dies in a car accident. She travels to New York City, to meet the man her mother
In The Art of the City Raffaele Milani reflects on the ways in which inhabitants of the cityscape have interacted on a spiritual, psychological, and philosophical level with the architecture that surr
