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World View: Iran's Struggle for Supremacy - John J. Xenakis

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Iran wants to be the master of the Mideast. It's threatening war with Saudi Arabia. It's supporting wars in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. It's supporting the Lebanon terror army Hezbollah to wage war in Syria and to attack and eliminate Israel, and to attack the United States. This book describes how a former United States ally has turned into a radical, corrupt, theological regime threatening the entire region. This book also addresses the controversies in Islam itself, including the Sunni-Shia split, the authenticity of the Koran and Sharia Law, polygamy and pedophilia in Islam, and whether the Koran commands all Muslims to kill all non-Muslims. 



Table of Contents




Part I. Introduction
  Chapter 1. Justification for this book
  Chapter 2. Fact-checking this book


Part II. Iran today and its internal conflicts
  Chapter 3. Student protests of 1999
  Chapter 4. More protests during the generational awakening of Iran's college students
  Chapter 5. The 2009 election and the Green movement


Part III. Iran in the 19th-20th centuries
  Chapter 6. Iran in the 1800s
  Chapter 7. History of Constitutions
  Chapter 8. Concessions, Capitulations and the Tobacco Revolt (1890-92)
    8.1. The Capitulatory System of the Middle East (1500s-1900s)
    8.2. The Tobacco Revolt (1890-92)
  Chapter 9. Iran's Constitutional Revolution (1905-09)
  Chapter 10. Iran after the Constitutional Revolution (1909-53)
    10.1. Iran during World War I
    10.2. Iran during World War II
    10.3. Anglo-Iranian Oil company nationalized, and 1953 CIA coup
  Chapter 11. The White Revolution (June 1963) and approach to 1979 revolution
    11.1. The White Revolution (June 1963) vs the Tobacco Revolt (1890)
    11.2. Prelude to the 1979 Great Islamic Revolution


Part IV. The Great Islamic Revolution (1979-present)
  Chapter 12. The rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
  Chapter 13. The 'causes' of the Great Islamic Revolution
  Chapter 14. The excuses for the Great Islamic Revolution
  Chapter 15. Khomeini's great massacre of 1988
  Chapter 16. Iranian hostage crisis


Part V. Pre-Islamic Persian empires
  Chapter 17. The cycles of history
  Chapter 18. Summary of pre-Islamic Persian empires
  Chapter 19. Persian history -- early dynasties
  Chapter 20. Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenid Persian empire (550-331 BC)
  Chapter 21. Alexander the Great and the Seleucid Empire (323-150 BC)
  Chapter 22. The Arsacids and the Parthian Empire (247 BC-226 AD).
    22.1. Arsaces I conquest of Parthia (247 BC)
    22.2. Roman-Parthian Wars (53 BC - 217 AD)
  Chapter 23. The Sassanid Empire (226-651 AD)


Part VI. Persian history after the conquest by Islamic Arabs
  Chapter 24. The fall of the Sassanian Empire to the Islamic Arabs (630-651)
    24.1. The war between the Sassanians and the Byzantines
    24.2. The last Sassanian king, Yazdgird III
    24.3. The Caliphs versus the Imams
    24.4. The first Shia Imam: Ali Ibn Abi Talib (601-661)
    24.5. The Hashim clan versus the Umayya clan
    24.6. Ali becomes Caliph (656): Partisans of Ali = Shiat Ali = Shia
    24.7. The Battle of Siffin (657) and the Kharijites and 'infidel' concept
    24.8. Abdullah ibn Saba and the alleged Jewish origins of Shia Islam
    24.9. Shia-Sunni clashes become vicious after Ali is assasinated (661)
  Chapter 25. Battle of Karbala (October 10, 680) and beheading of al-Husayn
    25.1. Prelude to the Battle of Karbala
    25.2. The Battle of Karbala
    25.3. Aftermath and the commemoration of Ashura
    25.4. Hussaini Brahmans - the link between Shia Muslims and Hindus
  Chapter 26. Expansion of the Islamic empire
    26.1. Birth and death of empires -- the cycles of history
    26.2. Zaydi Shia Muslims
    26.3. The Battle of Zab (750) and the Abbasids
    26.4. The Banquet of Blood (750)
    26.5. The Abbasid Dynasty (750-1258)


Part VII. The Koran and Sharia (Islamic) law
  Chapter 27. Development of Sharia law following Mohammed's death
  Chapter 28. Roman Law versus Sharia (Islamic) law: The role of the Jurist
  Chapter 29. There's no such thing as Sharia law
    29.1. Misunderstandings about Sharia law
    29.2. Mohammed's wives, and accusations of polygamy and pedophilia
  Chapter 30. Disputes over the authenticity of the Bible
  Chapter 31. Brief summary of the Koran
    31.1. Money lending
    31.2. Verses about marriage, divorce, dower, conjugal life, family disputes
    31.3. Koran verses about inheritance
    31.4. The Koran on civil war among the faithful
    31.5. Koran on business dealings and transactions
    31.6. Koran on theft: cut off their hands
    31.7. The Koran on fornication or obscene acts
  Chapter 32. Disputes over the authenticity of the Koran
  Chapter 33. Violence in the Koran: The sword-verses
    33.1. The empirical evidence -- Muslim nations governed by Sharia law
    33.2. The empirical evidence -- Muslim wars of invasion
    33.3. The empirical evidence -- Muslim populations involved in civil wars
    33.4. The empirical evidence -- Extremist jihadists referencing Sharia law
    33.5. The 'Sword-Verses' of the Koran and the Jizya
    33.6. Comparison of the Koran's sword-verses to the Bible's Old Testament
    33.7. Comparisons of Jesus to Mohammed
  Chapter 34. Disputes over the authenticity of the Sunnah and Hadith
  Chapter 35. There's no such thing as Sharia law - again
  Chapter 36. Brief history of Catholic and Orthodox Christian 'Ecumenical' Councils
    36.1. The Ecumenical Councils
    36.2. The Seventh Ecumenical Council (787) - iconoclasts and iconophiles
    36.3. The Catholic vs Orthodox Christian schism (1054)
    36.4. Universal versus regional religions
  Chapter 37. Blasphemy and violence in Islam
    37.1. Blasphemy laws in the UK and Ireland
    37.2. The 2015 Paris Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks
    37.3. Iran's death fatwa against Salman Rushdie and 'Satanic Verses'


Part VIII. Shia Islam Theology
  Chapter 38. The twelve infallible Imams
    38.1. The Sunni-Shia theological split
    38.2. Fivers, Seveners and Twelvers
  Chapter 39. The disappearance of al-Mahdi and the rise of the Shia jurists
    39.1. The Occultation -- the disappearance of the 12th Imam (940 AD)
    39.2. The rise of Shia jurists and Shia jurisprudence
    39.3. Sheikh Morteza Ansari and the Tobacco Revolt
    39.4. Shia jurisprudence and the Constitutional Revolution
    39.5. Theory of Wilayat al-Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist)


Part IX. Shia theology in practice under Khomeini
  Chapter 40. Wilayat al-Faqih in practice
    40.1. Divine guidance vs popular will
    40.2. The third way: Corruption
    40.3. The missing checks and balances
    40.4. The Principlists versus the Reformists
  Chapter 41. The Future of Iran
    41.1. December 2017 protests - challenge to Supreme Leader's legitimacy
    41.2. Replacing the Constitution
    41.3. Selecting a successor to Supreme Leader Khamenei
    41.4. Regime change and generational awakening


Part X. The End
  Chapter 42. About Generational Theory
  Chapter 43. About John J. Xenakis
  Chapter 44. Acknowledgments


Part XI. Footnotes / References

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