Michael Axworthy

Michael Axworthy is a British scientist and writer, who headed the Iran Department of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1998 to 2000.

Except by the publication of non-fiction books he has emerged on BBC Radio 4 by contributions for Prospect and The Independent as well as for the weekly radio program Start the Week.

In 2008 he became head of the then founded the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies ( CPIS ), which is based at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.

Writings

  • The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant, Tauris, London 2006, ISBN 1-85043-706-8

  • Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran ( Hurst Books; November 2007),

Revision as Penguin paperback Iran: Empire of the Mind. (November 2008)

  • Iran: Empire of the Mind. A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day, Penguin 2008, ISBN 0-14-103629- X German: Iran: Empire of the Spirit. From Zoroaster until today, translated by Gennaro Ghirardelli added, updated and revised edition, Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-8031-3636-9
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