The first generation : the politics of revival, 1920s-1960s
The second generation : the politics of revolution, 1963-1991
The third generation : the politics of Islamism, 1989-1997
The fourth generation : the politics of restoration, 1997-2005
Conclusion : the politics of oscillation.
Islamism and modernism : the changing discourse in Iran by Farhang Rajāyī. ISBN 9780292717565. Published by University of Texas Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.