Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

9-2003

Journal

Iranian Studies

Volume

36

Issue

3

Inclusive Pages

339-352

DOI

10.1080/021086032000139122

Keywords

disease, leadership, psychology

Abstract

STUDIES OF IRANIAN POLITICAL HISTORY OFTEN ASSUME THAT THE REPERCUSSIONS OF physical or mental illness on leadership are inconsequential in determining the course of history. Globally, very few scholars have attempted to systematically examine the effects of illness on leaders and Iranian historians seem to evade this topic entirely.

Peer Reviewed

1

Open Access

1

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