Title: Refashioning Iran : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and historiography /
Authors: Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad, 1957-
Publisher: Palgrave,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Orientalism Iran.; Nationalism Iran; Historiography Iran.; Historiography India.; Iran Historiography.; Iran History; Iran History
Abstract: "Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made 'homeless' by subsequent nationalist histories and shows how they relate to Indo Iranian modernity. In doing so, he argues, for a radical rewriting of Iranian history with profound implications for Islamic debates on gender."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: 1. Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts -- 2. Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia -- 3. Persianate Europology -- 4. Imagining European Women -- 5. Contested Memories -- 6. Crafting National Identity -- 7. Patriotic and Matriotic Natioanlism -- 8. Postscript.