The Ayatollah Khomeini has inspired one of the most extraordinary social and political upheavals of our time. Here now are excerpts from his religious teachings, published during his sixteen-year exile. His dictates cover every subject from the hour of rising in the morning to the “Holy War” against the west.

Originally published in France. Saying of the Ayatollah Khomeini was an immediate phenomenon. The American press has widely reviewed it and quoted from its starting contents. Now for the first time.