Yann Richard, born in 1948 in Joncy (

Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is B ...

), France, professor emeritus of the Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris) is a specialist of modern Shiʿism, the history of contemporary

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as well as

Persian literature Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day ...

Publications

*1980: ''Le Shi'isme en Iran. Islam et révolution'', Paris, Jean Maisonneuve, 1980, 135p. *1982: ersian edition and transl. into French with introduction Nuroddin ‘Abdorrahmân b. Ahmad JÂMI, ''Les Jaillissements de Lumière. Lavâyeh'', Paris, Les Deux Océans, 181 p. *1987: odirected with Bernard Hourcade ''Téhéran, Au-dessous du volcan'', Paris, Autrement, 222 p. *1989: nder his direction ''Entre l'Iran et l'Occident: Adaptation et assimilation des idées et techniques occidentales en Iran'', éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 242 p. *1990: odirected with Gilles Kepel">Gilles_Kepel.html" ;"title="odirected with Gilles Kepel">odirected with Gilles Kepel ''Intellectuels et militants de l'Islam contemporain'', édition du Seuil, 287 p. *1995: ''Shi'ite Islam : Polity, Ideology, and Creed'', Transl. by Antonia Nevill, Oxford - Cambridge, XIII-241 p. (from the French ''L'Islam chiite : Croyances et idéologies'', éditions Fayard, 302 p.) *2003: ''100 mots pour dire l'Iran moderne'', éditions Maisonneuve & Larose, 220 p. *2006: ''L'Iran. Naissance d'une république islamique'', éditions de La Martinière, 378 p. *2007: [Cowritten with Jean-Pierre Digard and Bernard Hourcade]: ''L'Iran au XXe siècle : Entre nationalisme, islam et mondialisation'', éditions Fayard, 501 p. (3nd edition) *2009: ''L'Iran de 1800 à nos jours'', Flammarion, 472 p. (reedition of "L'Iran. Naissance d'une république islamique") *2010: dition and introductionC.J. Edmonds, ''East and West of Zagros. Travel, war and politics in Persia and Iraq, 1913-1921'', Leiden - Boston, Brill, XXI-377 p. *2015: dition and introduction''Regards français sur le coup d’État de 1921 en Perse, Journaux personnels de Georges Ducrocq et Hélène Hoppenot'', Leiden - Boston, Brill, VI-699 p. *2016: ''L'Iran de 1800 à nos jours'', Flammarion, 492 p. (new edition with corrections and additional chapter) *2019 : Iran. A Social and Political History since the Qajars, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

External links

CNRS, Sorbonne nouvelle
Yann Richard

Lecture on the Islamic Revolution of 1979
Le Journal de Saône et Loire
Interview with Yann Richard French sociologists French Iranologists 1948 births People from Saône-et-Loire Living people {{France-sociologist-stub