{"product_id":"towards-the-great-civilization-9780755654178","title":"Towards the Great Civilization","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first English-language translation of former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's penultimate book, published in Persian on the eve of the revolution that brought the downfall of the monarchy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late 1970s, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran published his third book. In it, he gave his assessment of the progress of Iran in the 15 years since the launching of his White Revolution in 1963 and his vision for his country for the proceeding years and decades - the march towards, what he termed, Iran's Great Civilization. An indispensable source for understanding state ideology and domestic and foreign policy in the late Pahlavi period, as well as the shah's personal philosophy and political thought, this new edition of \u003ci\u003eTowards the Great Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e is based on the original unpublished English-language translation commissioned by the Pahlavi Library, edited by Robert Steele, with an introduction by Professor Ali Ansari.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980) \u003c\/b\u003ewas the last shah of Iran, who ruled the country from 1941 until 1979. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Steele\u003c\/b\u003e is a researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971\u003c\/i\u003e (I.B. Tauris, 2020) and \u003ci\u003ePahlavi Iran's Relations with Africa: Cultural and Political Connections in the Cold War \u003c\/i\u003e(2024), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eIran and Global Decolonisation: Politics and Resistance After Empire \u003c\/i\u003e(2023).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"I. B. Tauris \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50919490486546,"sku":"9780755654178","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_51f1a659-0d1d-4a7e-bc26-9c0cc6f8261a.jpg?v=1738896230","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/towards-the-great-civilization-9780755654178","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}