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Being Modern in Iran

Author : Fariba Adelkhah
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231119410
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Being Modern in Iran written by Fariba Adelkhah and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be modern in Iran today? Can one properly speak of modernity in relation to what many consider to be the paradigmatic Islamic state? Since its 1979 revolution seized the world's attention, the Islamic Republic of Iran has remained a subject of misunderstanding, passion, and polemic, making these questions difficult to answer--or even to ask. This book--a study of Iran's political culture in the broadest and deepest sense--looks into both of these questions by examining the tremendous changes taking place in Iran today. Because of the difficulties posed for researchers and journalists by the nature of the regime, those interested in contemporary Iranian social life have had to rely on a small number of specialized studies--most of which overemphasize the revolution's radical break with the past and focus exclusively on the Republic's Islamic character as the decisive factor in its social reality. But modernity has not simply been banished and excluded from Iran; nor have the effects of globalization passed it by. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Iran and an encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary Iranian politics and culture, anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah investigates modernity in the Islamic Republic of Iran by looking at the growth of individualism, the bureaucracy, commercial forces, and rationalization in post-revolution Iran. Being Modern in Iran ranges over such topics as - taxation and Islamic legitimacy; - Mayor Kharbaschi's creation of public space in Tehran; - the culture of giving; - religious economics; - the elections of 1996 and 1997, and the popular rejoicing that greeted them; - the nation-wide soccer craze; - the changing role of clerics; - the changing use of the Koran; and - the growth of competition in all areas of life. These subjects are brought to life by vignette discussions of pigeon-fanciers, flower symbolism, funeral rites, dreams, self-help manuals, cosmetics, and much more. Adelkhah avoids a simpleminded dualism between an "odious," backward, and repressive regime on the one side and a "kindly" civil society representing progress and freedom on the other; rather, she argues that a public space is being created through the existence of many religious, political, and economic activities. This sophisticated anthropology of the Iranian state sheds much-needed light on the unique nature of the social experiment Iran has been experiencing since the revolution.

Being Modern in Iran

Author : Fariba Adelkhah
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850655183
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Being Modern in Iran written by Fariba Adelkhah and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of Mohammad Khatami as President, the prospect of renewed dialogue between Tehran and Washington, and the display of popular rejoicing that greeted the nation's football team's qualification for the 1998 World Cup have shed light on aspects of everyday life in post-revolutionary Iran which have often been overlooked in the West. Through the Iranian example, this text reviews the debate not merely about political Islam, but also about democratic transition and its relation to social change.

Being Modern in Iran

Author : Fariba Adelkhah
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850655169
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Being Modern in Iran written by Fariba Adelkhah and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of Mohammad Khatami as President, the prospect of renewed dialogue between Tehran and Washington, and the display of popular rejoicing that greeted the nation's football team's qualification for the 1998 World Cup have shed light on aspects of everyday life in post-revolutionary Iran which have often been overlooked in the West.

Iran

Author : Abbas Amanat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300248937
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Iran written by Abbas Amanat and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first

Iran Modern

Author : Fereshteh Daftari
Publisher : Asia Society Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Iran Modern written by Fereshteh Daftari and published by Asia Society Museum. This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Iran Modern' offers a timely exploration of the cultural diversity and production of avant-garde art in Iran after World War II and up to the revolution, from 1950 through to 1979.

Democracy in Modern Iran

Author : Ali Mirsepassi
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814763448
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Modern Iran written by Ali Mirsepassi and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on Iran's relationship to democracy Can Islamic societies embrace democracy? In Democracy in Modern Iran, Ali Mirsepassi maintains that it is possible, demonstrating that Islam is not inherently hostile to the idea of democracy. Rather, he provides new perspective on how such a political and social transformation could take place, arguing that the key to understanding the integration of Islam and democracy lies in concrete social institutions rather than pre-conceived ideas, the every day experiences rather than abstract theories. Mirsepassi, an Iranian native, provides a rare inside look into the country, offering a deep understanding of how Islamic countries like Iran and Iraq can and will embrace democracy. Democracy in Modern Iran challenges readers to think about Islam and democracy critically and in a far more nuanced way than is done in black-and-white dichotomies of Islam vs. Democracy, or Iran vs. the West. This essential volume contributes important insights to current discussions, creating a more complex conception of modernity in the Eastern world and, with it, Mirsepassi offers to a broad Western audience a more accurate, less clichéd vision of Iran’s political reality.

Sexual Politics in Modern Iran

Author : Janet Afary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898463
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Politics in Modern Iran written by Janet Afary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the history of Iran's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. The resilience of the Iranian people forms the basis of this sexual revolution, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.

Modern Iran

Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300098563
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Modern Iran written by Nikki R. Keddie and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and expanded version of Nikki Keddie's work, Roots of Revolution, the author brings the story of modern Iran to the present day, exploring the political, cultural, and social changes of the past quarter century. Keddie provides insightful commentary on the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf War, and the effects of 9/11 and Iran's strategic relationship with the US. She also discusses developments in education, health care, the arts and the role of women.

The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran

Author : Ali M. Ansari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560336
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran written by Ali M. Ansari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of Iranian nationalism in nearly five decades, this sophisticated and challenging book by the distinguished historian Ali M. Ansari explores the idea of nationalism in the creation of modern Iran. It does so by considering the broader developments in national ideologies that took place following the emergence of the European Enlightenment and showing how these ideas were adopted by a non-European state. Ansari charts a course through twentieth-century Iran, analysing the growth of nationalistic ideas and their impact on the state and demonstrating the connections between historiographical and political developments. In so doing, he shows how Iran's different regimes manipulated ideologies of nationalism and collective historical memory to suit their own ends. Drawing on hitherto untapped sources, the book concludes that it was the revolutionary developments and changes that occurred during the first half of the twentieth century that paved the way for later radicalisation.

Modern Iran

Author : Ali Ansari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317864980
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Modern Iran written by Ali Ansari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s Iran is rarely out of the headlines. Labelled by George W Bush as a part of his ‘axis of evil’ and perceived as a real nuclear threat by some, Iran is increasingly seen as an enemy of the West. And yet for many Iran remains shrouded in mystery and incomprehensible to Western analysis. Modern Iran offers a comprehensive analysis and explanation of political, social and economic developments in Iran during the 20th century. Since it first published in 2003 Modern Iran has become a staple for students and lecturers wishing to gain a clear understand of the history of this strategically important Middle Eastern Country. The new edition will bring us up to dateand will include: an analysis of the successes and failures of the Khatami Presidency; an examination of the effect of 9/11; the rise of the Reform Movement and the efforts to promote Islamic Democracy; the resistance to democratisation among the hardline elites.

New Visual Culture of Modern Iran

Author : Reza Abedini
Publisher : Bis Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Visual Culture of Modern Iran written by Reza Abedini and published by Bis Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication shows a new side of Iran, one we do not often read about in newspapers.

Recasting Iranian Modernity

Author : Kamran Matin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134446691
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Recasting Iranian Modernity written by Kamran Matin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran’s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has international relations at its ontological core. This will enable a conception of history in which there is an intrinsic international dimension to social change that prevents historical repetition. This hitherto under-theorized international dimension is, the book argues, manifest in combined patterns of development, which incorporate both foreign and native forms. It is the tension-prone and unstable nature of these hybrid developmental patterns that mark Iranian modernity, and fuelled the socio-political dynamics of the 1979 revolution and the rise of political Islam. Challenging solely comparative approaches to the Iranian Revolution that explain it away as either a deviation from, or a reaction to, modernity on the grounds of its religious form, this book will be valuable to those interested in an alternative theoretical approach to the Iranian Revolution, modern Iran and political Islam, working in the fields of International Relations, Middle East and Islamic Studies, History, Political Science, Political Sociology, Postcolonialism, and Comparative Politics.

The Lonely War

Author : Nazila Fathi
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465040926
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Lonely War written by Nazila Fathi and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries—most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized—seized jobs, housing, and positions of power, transforming Iranian society practically overnight. But this socioeconomic revolution had an unintended effect. As Fathi shows, the forces unleashed in 1979 inadvertently created a robust Iranian middle class, one that today hungers for more personal freedoms and a renewed relationship with the outside world. And unless an international confrontation allows Iranian leaders to justify an internal crackdown, this internal pressure for reform will soon set the country on a more stable track. In The Lonely War, Fathi describes Iran's awakening alongside her own, revealing how moderates are retaking the country—and how foreign powers can aid their progress.

Modern Iran

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558766013
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Modern Iran written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Domestic and Foreign Policies of Iran

Author : Pejman Abdolmohammadi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030453367
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Domestic and Foreign Policies of Iran written by Pejman Abdolmohammadi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive analysis of the domestic and foreign politics of Iran, focusing on its complex nature from political, social and cultural perspectives. It has adopted a multidisciplinary approach, combining comparative politics and intellectual and modern history with international relations. It analyses the institutional structure of the Islamic Republic, the main political and social actors and alliances, as well as Iranian opposition forces both inside and outside the country. The book tries to simplify the seemingly intractable complexity of the Islamic Republic by demystifying it and using political science methods to prove that it is a peculiar hybrid regime.

Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran

Author : Zahra Pamela Karimi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415781833
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran by : Zahra Pamela Karimi

Download or read book Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran written by Zahra Pamela Karimi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the transformation of home culture and domestic architecture in twentieth century Iran. While highlighting the role of architects and urban planners since the turn of the century, the book also studies the interplay between foreign influences, gender roles, consumer culture, and women's education as they intersect with taste, fashion, and interior design.

Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran

Author : Kamran Talattof
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651392
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran written by Kamran Talattof and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Iran, since the mid–nineteenth century, one issue has been a common concern: how should Iran become modern? More than a century of struggle for or against modernity has constituted much of the social, political, and cultural history of the country. In the decades since the 1979 Revolution, the question has become even more critical. In Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran, Talattof finds that the process of modernity never truly unfolded, due in large part to Iran’s reluctance to embrace the seminal subjects of gender and sexuality. Talattof’s approach reflects a unique look at modernity as advancement not only in industry and economy but also toward an open, intellectual discourse on sexuality. Exploring the life and times of Shahrzad, a dancer, actress, filmmaker, and poet, Talattof illuminates the country’s struggle with modernity and the ideological, traditional, and religious resistance against it. Born in 1946, she performed in several theater productions, became an acclaimed film star in the 1970s, and pursued a career as a journalist and poet. Following the revolution, she was imprisoned and eventually became homeless on the streets of Tehran. Her success and eventual decline as a female artist and entertainer illustrate the conflict between modernity and tradition and Iran’s failure to embrace an overt expression of sexuality. Talattof also profiles several other female artists of the 1970s, analyzing their lives and work as windows through which to examine what Iranian culture allowed and what it repudiated. A pioneering and timely work, Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran explores the integral role of popular culture and female artists in the shaping of modern Iran, constructing a new framework for understanding such crucial concepts as ideology and modernity.