Iran Facing Others [electronic resource] : Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective /
Amanat, A.editor.
Vejdani, F.editor.
Iran's long history and complex cultural legacy have generated animated debates about a homogenous Iranian identity in the face of ethnic, linguistic and communal diversity. The volume examines the fluid boundaries of pre-modern identity in history and literature as well as the shaping of Iranian national identity in the 20th century.
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Cover; Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective; Contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION: Iranian Identity Boundaries: A Historical Overview; National Identity as a Construct; Legacy of an Ancient Past; Contested Notions of Iran; Shi'i Identity under the Safavids; Emergence of National Identity under the Qajars; Nationalist Identity in the Pahlavi Era; Self and Other in the Islamic Republic; Notes; PART I: The Legacy of Cultural Exclusion and Contested Memories; CHAPTER 1: Iran and Aniran: The Shaping of a Legend; Notes
CHAPTER 2: Redrawing the Boundaries of 'Ajam in Early Modern Persian Literary HistoriesIntroduction: Iranian versus Persian Literary History; Shifting Literary Views in Iran; The Indian Conception of 'Ajam; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 3: Iranian History in Transition: Recasting the Symbolic Identity of Babak Khorramdin; The Revolt of Babak; Historiography of Babak's Revolt and Iranian Transitional Identities; Crafting Identity: A Political Project; Conclusion; Notes; PART II: Empires and Encounters
CHAPTER 4: Rebels and Renegades on Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Porous Frontiers and Hybrid IdentitiesA Safavid Prince in Istanbul; An Ottoman Prince in Qazvin; Celali Rebels in Iran; The Qizilbash in Ottoman Service; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 5: Facing a Rude and Barbarous Neighbor: Iranian Perceptions of Russia and the Russians from the Safavids to the Qajars; Antecedents; Changing Perceptions; Russian Expansionism; The Intensification of Contacts through Travel; Political Issues; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 6: Through the Persian Eye: Anglophilia and Anglophobia in Modern Iranian History
Facing a Friend or a Foe?Admiring the English Way; Hope and Despair during the Constitutional Revolution and After; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 7: British Imperialism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in Iran, 1890-1919; Imperialism; Regionalism; Nationalism; Notes; PART III: Nationalism and the Appropriation of the Past; CHAPTER 8: The Academic Debate on Iranian Identity: Nation and Empire Entangled; The Persian-National Paradigm of Iranian Identity; Academic Challenges to the Persian- National Identity Paradigm
The 2005-6 Iranica Definition of Iranian Identity: Synthesizing Irreconcilable PerspectivesEpilogue: The Disentanglement of Imperial and National History; Notes; CHAPTER 9: Iran and Iraq: Intersocietal Linkages and Secular Nationalisms; The Communities; Cultural Affinities; Iranian and Iraqi Nationalisms; Arabs and Persian through the Ages; Conclusion; Notes; PART IV: Self-Fashioning and Internal Othering; CHAPTER 10: Identity among the Jews of Iran; Espousing Another Identity; Conversions: "Outwardly we are all Muslims;  in our hearts we're Jews"; Iranian Jews; Equal Iranians?; Identities
In an Islamic State
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Iran's long history and complex cultural legacy have generated animated debates about a homogenous Iranian identity in the face of ethnic, linguistic and communal diversity. The volume examines the fluid boundaries of pre-modern identity in history and literature as well as the shaping of Iranian national identity in the 20th century.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Middle East—Politics and government.
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