The Iranian revolution reached far beyond Iran into the broader Islamic world

Evidence

What happened in Iran, for better or for worse, was a real revolution, in the sense that the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution were real revolutions. And like them, the Iranian revolution had a tremendous impact in all those countries with which it shares a common universe of discourse, in other words in the Islamic world. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 309

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the knowledge-production cluster: how the 1979 revolution became legible to Western audiences as a ‘real revolution’ on the French/Russian model — the comparativist framing itself is a form of legibility-making. — connects to: Iran’s 1979 revolution shifted the frame from Arabs to Islamism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 455