...Although Iran’s Green Movement in 2009 and the Arab Spring in 2011 brought hope to many, the author was cautious. The Iranian Revolution proved that demonstrations, uprisings, and slogans, helpful as they may be in giving expression to the needs of populations involved, will not improve systems...

...This chapter argues that during the early months and years after the Iranian Revolution, Pakistani Shi‘i ‘ulama remained primarily occupied with domestic events. Even ardent supporters of Khomeini were not sure what his authority should mean for them outside of Iran. Additionally...

...When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list. Afkhami, Iran's first minister for women's affairs...

.... Fuchs shows how popular Pakistani preachers and scholars have boldly tapped into the esoteric potential of Shi'ism, occupying a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers, translators, and self-confident pioneers of contemporary Islamic thought. They have indigenized the Iranian Revolution...

.... The chapter contends, however, that for the ‘ulama of Pakistan’s most virulent anti-Shi‘i group, the Sipah-i Sahabah-i Pakistan (Army of the Companions of the Prophet; SSP), the Iranian Revolution constituted a threatening attempt at world domination and subversion of the fundamentals...

... from country to country. In 1979 the author received a message to urge her husband Gholam to leave Iran, which he did, via a clandestine border crossing. Gholam secured a position at Stanford, where he wrote The Iranian Revolution: Thanatos on a National Scale, while the author...