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Iranian Opposition to the Shah
Iranian Opposition to the Shah
The overthrow of the Shah came as a great surprise, even to many Iranists, in spite of the fact that the revolution had been in the air in Tehran long before this was realized in the West. More enigmatic than the Islamic revolution itself were the aims of its supporters, although most of the opposition groups had explicitly stated their objectives in their publications long before the revolution. But the tightening censorship in Iran had forced the whole spectrum of the opposition to publish abroad.
The evasive nature of dissident literature makes bibliographical control, and acquisition in general, extremely difficult. In the case of the Iranian revolution we are fortunate that W.H. Behn has taken on the formidable task of listing (in his bibliographies) every publication of an anti-Pahlavi nature in Persian, or in other languages about Iran, published outside Iran between 1962 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. The measure of his success is that he has amassed a total of some 800 books and pamphlets...
The selection offered in this edition originates largely from the University of Tubingen Library, whose staff displayed imagination, initiative, and scholarship when they acquired this unique material at a time when others were hardly aware of the importance of these publications. This microfiche edition comprises all of the important primary sources (transactions of congresses, defence pleas, party programs) as well as literature on economics, guerrilla movements, human rights, Islamic government and revolution, minorities, political trials, prisons, religion, sociology, and the Tudeh Party. The material is a rich source for the intellectual history of contemporary Islam. It also throws light on the international dimension of revolutionary movements in general.
References
Wolfgang Behn, The Iranian Opposition in Exile. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1979.
–––––, Revolution or Revolutionary Islam in Iran. Berlin, 1980.
–––––, Power and Reaction in Iran. Berlin, 1981.
The collection
[Subject group: Number of documents]
• Arab World: 10
• Biography: 22
• Collected works: 12
• Documents: 8
• Economics: 14
• Foreign Interests and Relations: 9
• Foreign Relations: 4
• Guerrilla Organizations: 85
• Islamic Government: 18
• Labour: 27
• Messages on various occasions: 8
• Minorities: 56
• Miscellaneous: 3
• Oil: 6
• Periodicals: 5
• Philosophy: 4
• Political Parties: 53
• Political situation: 166
• Political trials: 27
• Prisons: 20
• Religion: 34
• Savak: 8
• Sociology: 8
• Student affairs: 46
• Tudeh Party: 33
• White Revolution: 2
• Women: 13
The overthrow of the Shah came as a great surprise, even to many Iranists, in spite of the fact that the revolution had been in the air in Tehran long before this was realized in the West. More enigmatic than the Islamic revolution itself were the aims of its supporters, although most of the opposition groups had explicitly stated their objectives in their publications long before the revolution. But the tightening censorship in Iran had forced the whole spectrum of the opposition to publish abroad.
The evasive nature of dissident literature makes bibliographical control, and acquisition in general, extremely difficult. In the case of the Iranian revolution we are fortunate that W.H. Behn has taken on the formidable task of listing (in his bibliographies) every publication of an anti-Pahlavi nature in Persian, or in other languages about Iran, published outside Iran between 1962 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. The measure of his success is that he has amassed a total of some 800 books and pamphlets...
The selection offered in this edition originates largely from the University of Tubingen Library, whose staff displayed imagination, initiative, and scholarship when they acquired this unique material at a time when others were hardly aware of the importance of these publications. This microfiche edition comprises all of the important primary sources (transactions of congresses, defence pleas, party programs) as well as literature on economics, guerrilla movements, human rights, Islamic government and revolution, minorities, political trials, prisons, religion, sociology, and the Tudeh Party. The material is a rich source for the intellectual history of contemporary Islam. It also throws light on the international dimension of revolutionary movements in general.
References
Wolfgang Behn, The Iranian Opposition in Exile. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1979.
–––––, Revolution or Revolutionary Islam in Iran. Berlin, 1980.
–––––, Power and Reaction in Iran. Berlin, 1981.
The collection
[Subject group: Number of documents]
• Arab World: 10
• Biography: 22
• Collected works: 12
• Documents: 8
• Economics: 14
• Foreign Interests and Relations: 9
• Foreign Relations: 4
• Guerrilla Organizations: 85
• Islamic Government: 18
• Labour: 27
• Messages on various occasions: 8
• Minorities: 56
• Miscellaneous: 3
• Oil: 6
• Periodicals: 5
• Philosophy: 4
• Political Parties: 53
• Political situation: 166
• Political trials: 27
• Prisons: 20
• Religion: 34
• Savak: 8
• Sociology: 8
• Student affairs: 46
• Tudeh Party: 33
• White Revolution: 2
• Women: 13
[The] work... will be an indispensable tool for anyone studying the recent history of Iran and the sources of the opposition to the Shah that led to the revolution of 1979 – Prof. Elwell-Sutton, University of Edinburgh, in British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Bulletin 7/1 (1980)