Being Modern in Iran
Series: The CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: May 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780231119412
Subjects: Cultural studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Iran; Anthropology - Cultural; Economic Conditions; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; Government - Comparative; Sociology - General; 1979-; Islam; Islam and politics; Politics and government; Social aspects; Social conditions
First sentence: Gobineau, in a celebrated passage about nineteenth-century Iran, said that the Persian state did not exist in reality, that the individual was everything: The state?