On Tuesday evening at the New York Public Library, Professor Saïd Amir Arjomand held forth before a sizable and attentive audience on the narrative history and socio-political structures of post-revolutionary Iran. Arjomand is the author of, most recently, After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors, in which he aspires to provide not only a study of the "long shadow" cast by Khomeini's legacy over Iranian politics---a shadow, he argues, that has begun to lift only this year, three decades after the Revolution---but, in addition, a social-theoretical framework for the analysis of revolutionary and post-revolutionary politics in the Iranian context.