Bibliograph

Rethinking Iranian nationalism and modernity, edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi

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Rethinking Iranian nationalism and modernity, edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rethinking Iranian nationalism and modernity

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

864789539

Responsibility statement

edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi

Summary

An illuminating anthology of more than a dozen innovative perspectives on the making of modern Iranian nationhood, from Orientalism and historiography to the role of land/place, identity, religion, and contested visions of modernity in twentieth-century Iran.--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi -- Paradigms of Iranian nationalism : history, theory, and historiography / Afshin Marashi -- Franz Babinger and the legacy of the "German counter- revolution" in early modern Iranian historiography / Ali Anooshahr -- The Berlin circle : Iranian nationalism meets German countermodernity / Afshin Matin-Asgari -- The love that dare not be translated : erasures of premodern sexuality in modern Persian mysticism / Wendy DeSouza -- Imagining Iran before nationalism : geocultural meanings of land in Azar's Atashkadeh / Mana Kia -- The Khuzistani Arab movement, 1941/1946 : a case of nationalism? / Brian Mann -- "The portals of Persepolis" : the role of nationalism in early U.S.-Iranian relations / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet -- An Iranian in New York : Abbas Masudi's description of the non-Iranian on the eve of the Cold War / Camron Michael Amin -- Islamic-Iranian nationalism and its implications for the study of political Islam and religious nationalism / Kamran Scot Aghaie -- The place of Islam in interwar Iranian nationalist historiography / Farzin Vejdani -- Contesting marginality : ethnicity and the construction of new histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Touraj Atabaki -- Return of the avant-garde to the streets of Tehran / Talinn Grigor -- Construction of Iran's national identity : three discourses / Sussan Siavoshi -- Relocating a common past and the making of east-centric modernity : Islamic and secular nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran / Hanan Hammad -- "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"? : post-1979 Iran and the fragile fiction of Israel as a Euro-American space / Haggai Ram

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