Nationalism has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual discourse of modernity that emerged in Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present, promoting new formulations of collective identity and advocating a new and more active role for the broad strata of the public in politics. The essays in this volume seek to shed light on the construction of nationalism in Iran in its many manifestations; cultural, social, political and ideological, by exploring on-going debates on this important and progressive topic.
Edited by:
Meir Litvak (Tel Aviv University Israel)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9781138213227
ISBN 10: 1138213225
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 24 April 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"1 Introduction Meir Litvak 2 The Construction of Iranian National Identity: An Overview Meir Litvak 3 Persian-Iranian National Identity: The longue durée, from Achaemenid times onward Azar Gat 4 Four Iterations of Persian Literary Nationalism Nasrin Rahimieh 5 Intersectionality and the Narrative of Nationalism Eliz Sanasarian 6 Gendering the Nation: Masculinity and Nationalism in Iran during the Constitutional Revolution Sivan Balslev 7 Nationalism and Islam in a Provincial Setting: Late Qajar Isfahan Meir Litvak 8 Iranian Nationalism and the question of Race Ali M Ansari 9 Nationalist Representations of the Persian Gulf under Reza Shah Pahlavi Chelsi Mueller 10 Iranian Nationalism, Islamic Unity and Shi‘sm in Iran's Regional Policy: From the Pahlavis to the Islamic Republic Raz Zimmt 11 Surveying the 'Sheikhdoms' of the Persian Gulf, 1966-1973: Newspaperman ‘Abbas Mas‘udi and the Construction of Iranian Nationalism in Foreign Policy Camron Michael Amin 12 ""True Muslims Must Always Be Tidy and Clean"": Exoticism of the Countryside in Late Pahlavi Iran Menahem Merhavi 13 ""The Jew Has a Lot of Money, Too"": Representations of Jews in twentieth Century Iranian Culture Orly Rahimyan 14 Jewish Intellectuals in Iran and Their Quest for Iranian National Identity in the first half of the twentieth century Miriam Nissimov 15 Pre-revolutionary Islamic Discourse in Iran as Nationalism: Islamism in Iran as nationalism Alexander Greenberg 16 Nationalism and the Islamic Republic of Iran Bernard Hourcade 17 Beyond Boundaries: Iranian Azeris in an Age of Globalization Geoffrey F. Gresh 18 Guarding the Nation: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Nationalism, and the Iran-Iraq War Annie Tracy-Samuel 19 From State to Nation and from Nation to State in Egypt: The Role of the State in the Formation of Nationalism and the Role of Nationalism in the Formation of the State, 1805-1952 Israel Gershoni"
Meir Litvak is Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History, Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Shi‘i Scholars of Nineteenth Century Iraq: The ‘Ulama’ of Najaf and Karbala’ and published widely on modern Shi`ism.