Iranian History/Ayatollah Khomeini and The Islamic Revolution

The Iranian Revolution (also known as the Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolution, Iran Chamber. Islamic Revolution of Iran, MS Encarta. The Islamic Revolution, Internews. Iranian Revolution. Iran Profile, PDF.The Shah and the Ayatollah: Iranian Mythology and Islamic Revolution (Hardcover), 0-275-97858-3, by Fereydoun Hoveyda, brother of Amir Abbas Hoveyda. Persian: انقلاب اسلامی, Enghelābe Eslāmi) was the revolution that transformed Iran from a monarchyAn is the kind of monarchy Iran was. under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic.Encyclopædia Britannica. It has been called "the third great revolution in history," following the French and Russian revolutions,Marvin Zonis quoted in Wright, Sacred Rage 1996, p.61 and an event that "made Islamic fundamentalism a political force ... from Morocco to Malaysia."Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, Norton, (2006), p.121 References See Bibliography Section