Being Modern in Iran
Publisher: Columbia University Press; Columbia University Press in association with the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales
Published: March 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780231119405
Subjects: History; Islamic Government; Social Situations And Conditions; Social Science; Sociology; Islam - General; Middle East - Iran; Sociology - General; History / Middle East; Government - Comparative; 1979-; Iran; 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?