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Sources of Study SOURCES OF STUDY BOOKS PUBLISHED IN PERSIAN LANGUAGE Agheli, Bagher, Roozshomar tarikh’e Iran, az moshrouteh ta enqelab eslami [Chronology of Iran, 1896–1979]. 2 vols. Tehran: Namak, 1387/2008. Agheli, Bagher, sharh’e hal’e rejal’e siasi va nezami’e Iran [A comprehensive bio- graphical dictionary of contemporary Iranian political and military personali- ties]. 3 vols. Tehran: Goftar, 1380/2001. Ahmadi, Hamid, Tahqiqi darbareh’e tarikh’e enqelab’e Iran [An essay on the his- tory of the Iranian revolution]. Frankfurt: Enqelah Eslami Zeitung, 1380/2001. Alikhani, Alinaghi, ed., yaddashthay’e Alam [Alam diaries]. 6 vols. Tehran: Maziar- Moin, 2001. Alikhani, Alinaghi, ed., yaddashthay’e Alam [Alam diaries]. 6 vols. Bethesda, MD: Ibex, 2008. Alikhani, Reza, Shariati va Savak [Shariati and the SAVAK]. Tehran: Kavir, 1382/2003. Amini, Iraj, bar bal’e bohran, zendegi siasi Ali Amini [Political biography of Ali Amini]. Tehran: Mahi, 1386/2007. Araghi, Mehdi, nā’gofteh’hā; khāterāt’e Shahid Hāj Mehdi Arāghi [The untold memoirs of Haj Mehdi Araqi]. Tehran: Rasa, 1370/1991. Bakhtiar, Shapour, Si’ o haft rooz pas az si’o haft sal [Thirty-seven days after thirty- seven years]. Iran: Entesharat’e Radio, 1982. Bani-Sadr, Abolhassan, Dars’e Tajrobeh [Lessons drawn from experience], in con- versation with Hamid Ahmadi. Frankfurt: Englelab Eslami Zeitung, 2001. Bani-Sadr, Abolhassan, Khianat be Omid [The betrayal of hope]. Paris, 1982. © The Author(s) 2019 407 D. Bayandor, The Shah, the Islamic Revolution and the United States, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96119-4 408 SOURCES OF STUDY Bazargan, Mehdi, enqelab Iran dar do harakat [The revolution in two move- ments]. Tehran: Bonyad Farhangi Bazargan, 1984. Bazargan, Mehdi, shast sal khedmat va moqavemat; khaterat’e mohandes Mehdi Bazargan dar goftegu ba sarhang Gholam-Reza Nejati [Sixty years of service and resistance: Memoirs of Eng. Mehdi Bazargan, in conversation with Gholam-Reza Nejati]. Tehran: Rasa, 1995. Besharati, Ali-Mohammad, and Ahmad Rashidi, obour az shatt’e shab [Crossing the night’s river, a memoir]. Tehran: Markaz Enqelab Eslami, 2004. Chubineh, Bahram, ed., Posht Pardeh’hay’e Enqelab Eslami: Eeterafat’e Hossein Boroujedi [Behind curtains of the Islamic Revolution: Confessions of Hossein Boroujerdi]. Germany: Nima, 2002. Chubineh, Bahram, ed., Yaddashha va yadmandeh’hay parakandeh Iraj Eskandari [Miscellaneous notes and reminiscence by Iraj Eskandari]. Berlin: Mard- Emrouz, 1986. Dalatabadi, Yahya, Hayat’e Yahya. 4 volumes, Tehran: Atar, 1361/1982. Davani, Ali, Nehzat Rohaniat Iran [A history clerical movement]. 10 vols. Tehran: Center for Documentation of Islamic Republic, 2015. Englelab be ravayat asnad savak (compendium of [selected] SAVAK archive files on the Islamic Revolution; Ministry of Information). Tehran: Soroush, 1376/1997. Fardoust, General Hossein (in conversation with Abdollah Shahbazi), Zohur va soqout’e saltanat’e Pahlavi; khaterat’e arteshbod sabeq Hossein Fardoust [The rise and ther fall of Pahlavi reign: Memoirs of ex-General Hosssein Fardoust]. Hashemi, Mohsen, ed., doran’e mobarezeh, khaterat’e Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani [The period of struggle: Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]. 2 vols. Tehran: Daftar Nashr Ma’aref Enqelab, 1376/1997. Homayoon, Daryoush, dirooz va farda [Yesterday and tomorrow]. Washington, DC: Homayoon Foundation, 1981. Homayoon, Daryoush, Man va rouzgaram [Me and my times, memoirs]. Hamburg: Homayoon Foundation, 2008. Houshang-Mahdavi, Abdolreza, Tarikh’e ravabet’e khareji iran az payan’e jang jahani dovom ta soqout rezhim Pahlavei [History of Iran’s foreign policy from the end of the Second World War to the fall of Pahlavi regime]. Tehran, 1988. Jazani, Bijan, cheguneh mobarezeh’e mosallahaneh tudeh’ei mishavad [How armed struggle becomes a mass movement]. Tehran: Maziar, 1358/1979. Jazani, Bijan, Jam-bandi’e mobazerzat si saleh’e akhir dar iran [Balance sheet of political struggles in Iran during previous thirty years]. Pamphlet written in prison in 1974. Katouzian, Homa, and Pishdad Amir, nameh’hay Khalil Maleki [A collection of Khalil Maleki’s letters]. Tehran: Nashr Markaz, 1381/2002. SOURCES OF STUDY 409 Kianouri, Nureddin, Khaterat’e Nureddin Kianouri [Memoirs of Nureddin Kianouri]. Tehran: Didgah, 1371/1992. Mir-Ferdos, Ali, ed. [in conversation with Amir-Aslan Afshar], Kahterat Amir Aslan Afshar Akharin Ra’eis Kol Tashrifat Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi [Memoirs of A. A. Afshar the last “Grand Marshal of Ceremonies” in the Shah’s court]. Montreal: Farhang, 2012. Mirfendereski, Ahmad [in conversation with Ahmad Ahrar], diplomacy va siasat khareji iran az sevom sharivar ta 22 bahman 1357 [Diplomacy and foreign pol- icy of Iran from August 1941 to 11 February 1979]. Tehran: Elmi, 1382/2003. Mirmohammad-Sadeqi, Alaeddin, Panjereh’i be gozashteh [A window to the past]. Tehran: Karafarin, 1392/2013. Mohammad, Turkman, Asrar’e qatl’e Razmara [Secrets of the Razmara assassina- tion]. Tehran: Rasa, 1370/1991. Montazeri, Ayatollah Hossein-Ali, Khaterat, a two-volume memoire of Ayatollah Montazeri. https://amontazeri.com/book/khateratin. Mosaddeq, Mohammad, Khaterat va Ta’alomat [Mosaddeq memoirs, prefaced and edited by Iraj Afshar]. Tehran: Elmi, 1986. Moshir, Morteza, Khaterat’e arteshbod Fereydoun Jam [Memoirs of General Djam]. Los Angeles, CA: Sherkat Ketan, 2008. Naderi, Mahmoud, Cherik’hay fada’ei khalq az nakhstin konesh’ha ta bahman 57 [The Fadaiyan Khalq from inception to February 1979]. Tehran: Moasseseh Motale’at va Pazhohesh’hay Siasai, 2008. Najafi, Hossein,nehzat arba’een; nazari bar qiam 29 bahman mardom Tabriz [The fortieth-day memorial movement: A look at the 18 February uprising by Tabriz people]. Tabriz, 1380/1991. Naraghi, Ehsan, Ancheh khod dashat [What he possessed]. Tehran: Amir-Kabir, 1976. Naraghi, Ehsan, qorbat’e qarb [Estrangement with the West] (Tehan: Amir-Kabir, 1974. Nejati, Gholam-Reza, Tarikh’e bisto panj sal’eh Iran, az coudeta ta enqelab [Twenty-five years history of Iran from the coup d’état to the revolution]. Tehran: Rasa, 1992. Pahlavi, Mohammad-Reza, be souy’e tamadon bozurg [Toward the Great Civilization]. Tehran: Pahlavi Library, 1977. Pahlavi, Mohammad-Reza, Pasokh be Tarikh (self-published, original version of Answer to History). Paris: Imprimérie Aubin, 1979. Pirnia, Mansureh, Khanoum Vazir, Khaterat va dastneveshteh’hay’e Farokh-Roy’e Parsa [Madame Minister: The memoirs and writings of Farokh-Roy’e Parsa]. Potomac, MD: MehrIran, 2007. Proceedings of Meetings of the High Command Council, mesl’e barf ab khahim shod, mozakerat shuray’e farmandahi artesh [We shall melt like snow]. Tehran: Ney, 1366/1987. 410 SOURCES OF STUDY Rahnema, Ali, Nirouha’ye Maz’habi dar Bestar’e Harekat’e Nehzat’e Melli [Religious forces in the background of the national movement]. Tehran: Gam’e-no, 1384/2005. Razmi, Mashaullah, Azerbaijan va jenbesh’e tarafdaran’e Ayatollah Sariatmadari dar sal 1358 [Azerbaijan and pro-Shariatmadari Movement in 1979]. Stockholm, 2000. Rouhani, Seyyed Hamid, Nehzat’e Imam Khomeini [Imam Khomeini’s move- ment]. 3 vols. Tehran: Orooij, 1381/2002. Sabeti, Parviz (in conversation with Erfan Qanee-Fard), dar damgah’e hadeseh; barresi elal va avamel’e forupashi’ye hokumat’e shahanshahi [Reminiscences of Sabeti ex-chief of Internal Security Bureau of the SAVAK]. Los Angeles, CA: Sherkat Ketab, 2012. Samakar, Abbas, man yek shooreshi hastam, khaterat zendan [I am a rebel, prison memoirs], 2nd ed. Los Angeles, 2001. Sanjabi, Karim, Khateran Siasi [Political memoirs]. Tehran: Sadeday’e Moaser, 1381/2002. Sazeman’e Mojahedin Khalq az Peyda’i ta Farjam, 1344-1384 [People’s Mojaheddin Organization, MKO from inception to the end; 3-volume compilation of archive documents and history of the MKO]. Tehran: Center for Historical Studies and Research. Shahbazi, Abdollah, Khaterat siasi Iraj Eskandari, dabir aval hezb’e tudeh Iran, 1349–1357 [Memoirs of Iraj Eskandari, the First Secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran, 1960–1978]. Tehran: Mo’assesseh Motale’at va Pazhuheshhay Siasi, 1372/1993. Shariati, Ali, Tashyuee Alavi va tashyuee’e Safavi [Shiism under Imam Ali caliphate and under the Safavid dynasty]. First published in Tehran: Chapkhash, 1351/1972. Shirkhani, Ali, hemaseh’e 29 bahman [The 18 February epic]. Tehran: Markaz’e Asnad’e Enqelab Eslami, 1999. Shokat, Hamid, parvaz dar zolmat, zenegi siasi Shapour Bakhtiar [Bakhtiar’s polit- ical biography]. Köln: Forooq, 2016. Tabari, Ehsan, Kazh Raheh; khaterati az tarikh hezb’e tudeh [Going astray: Reminiscences from the history of Tudeh Party]. Tehran: Amir-Kabir, 1386/2007. Tajbaksh, Gholam-Reza, and Farokh Najmabadi, eds., yaddashthay’e Fuad Ruhani, nakhostin dabir kol’e sazeman’e keshvarhay’e sader konandeh naft [opec] va na- gofteh ha’ei darbareh’e siasat’e nafti iran dar daheh pas az melli shodan naft [Diaries of Fuad Ruhani, the first Secretary General of OPEC, and some com- mentaries about Iran’s oil policy in the post-nationalization era]. Bethesda, MD: Foundation of Iranian Studies, 2013. SOURCES OF STUDY 411 Tavakoli-Neyshapouri, Colonel Nasrollah, Akharin soqout’e arya’ha; khaterat ava- lin raêis setad kol’e artesh pas az engelab [The final collapse of Arians; memoirs of the first post-revolution chief of general staff of the armed forces]. Bethesda, MD: IBEX, 2014. Touluei, Mahmoud, Pedar va Pesar, nagofteh’haei az zendegi va roozgar pahlaviha [Father and son, untold accounts from the life and times of Pahlavis]. Tehran: Elmi, 1372/1992. Yazdi, Ebrahim akharin talash’ha dar akharin rouzha [Memoirs of Neauphle le Château]. Tehran: Qalam, 1379/2000.
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