Following the success of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Iran was for a brief moment of time on the forefront in developing alternative futures that appealed to a much wider third world in general. While the attempt to export the revolution abroad ultimately failed, Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs recovers lost possibilities and the appeal of the Iranian Revolution by unpacking what it meant to various players in the Muslim world and beyond: from Lebanese leftists to Pakistani Islamists to the Global South.
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs' research project "Towards a Global Intellectual History of the Iranian Revolution" was funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation as part of the special programme Islam.