TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ostovar,Afshon
TI  - Vanguard of the Imam: religion, politics, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards 
SN  - 9780190491727 (ebook) :
AV  - UA853.I7 O84 2016
U1  - 355.3 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Sipåah-i Påasdåaråan-i Inqilåab-i Islåamåi (Iran)
KW  - Civil-military relations
KW  - Iran
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1997-
KW  - History, Military
N2  - This work is about the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its ascent to become one of the most formidable entities in Iran and the Middle East. It follows the organization from its birth in the midst of the 1979 revolution through the succeeding decades of the Islamic Republic's maturation
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199387892.001.0001
ER  -