Modern Iran
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: edited, translated, and introduced by Negin Nabavi
Series: Princeton series of Middle Eastern sources in translation; Princeton series of Middle Eastern sources in translation
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781558766006; 9781558766013
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sources; History
Description: A translation of Iranian Documents from the early nineteenth century as to the 21st Century which shed light on aspects of political, social and intellectual history of modern Iran. Covering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, this reader brings together primary sources in translation that shed light on aspects of the political, social, cultural and intellectual history of modern Iran. It makes use of a combination of documents that include newspapers and the periodical press, diaries, memoirs, letters, speeches, and essays that have been translated here for the first time from Persian. It focuses on the momentous changes that society went through not only in terms of political events and developments, but also in terms of ideas, perceptions, and mindsets.

Contains primary source documents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Iran in the "long nineteenth century": 1785-1911; title: Qajar rule, society, and the great powers; title: Reforms, economic concessions, and expressions of dissent; title: Constitution and constitutionalism: debates and developments; title: Part II. 1911-1978; title: War, coup d'état, hopes, and disillusionment; title: State-building, the politics of modernization, and its discontents; title: Intellectuals, Islam, and the search for "cultural authenticity"; title: Part III. The Iranian Revolution: 1978-1979; title: The months leading to the 1979 Revolution; title: Part Iv. Iran today: 1979 to the present; title: Defining the Islamic Republic; title: Voices of reform and societal transformations; title: The tenth presidential elections and their aftermath.