Rethinking Iranian nationalism and modernity
By: edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780292757493
Subjects: Civilization; Iranian National characteristics; Islam and state; Nationalism; Nationalismus; Islam
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi; title: Paradigms of Iranian nationalism : history, theory, and historiography / Afshin Marashi; title: Franz Babinger and the legacy of the "German counter- revolution" in early modern Iranian historiography / Ali Anooshahr; title: The Berlin circle : Iranian nationalism meets German countermodernity / Afshin Matin-Asgari; title: The love that dare not be translated : erasures of premodern sexuality in modern Persian mysticism / Wendy DeSouza; title: Imagining Iran before nationalism : geocultural meanings of land in Azar's Atashkadeh / Mana Kia; title: The Khuzistani Arab movement, 1941/1946 : a case of nationalism? / Brian Mann; title: "The portals of Persepolis" : the role of nationalism in early U.S.-Iranian relations / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet; title: An Iranian in New York : Abbas Masudi's description of the non-Iranian on the eve of the Cold War / Camron Michael Amin; title: Islamic-Iranian nationalism and its implications for the study of political Islam and religious nationalism / Kamran Scot Aghaie; title: The place of Islam in interwar Iranian nationalist historiography / Farzin Vejdani; title: Contesting marginality : ethnicity and the construction of new histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Touraj Atabaki; title: Return of the avant-garde to the streets of Tehran / Talinn Grigor; title: Construction of Iran's national identity : three discourses / Sussan Siavoshi; title: Relocating a common past and the making of east-centric modernity : Islamic and secular nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran / Hanan Hammad; title: "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.