Refashioning Iran
Subtitle: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and  Historiography (St. Antony's)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780333949221
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; Gender Studies; Middle East - Iran; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies; Middle East - General; Historiography; India; Iran; Nationalism; Orientalism
Description: "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.