Vanessa Martin Author & Editor

Vanessa Martin is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her previous publications include Islam and Modernism: The Iranian Revolution of 1906 (1989), Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran (2000, 2003), The Qajar Pact: Bargaining Protest and the State in Nineteenth Century Iran (2005) and (co-edited with Houchang Chehabi) Iran's Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections (2010), all with I.B.Tauris.