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Intellectual Trends in Twentieth-century Iran

Author : Negin Nabavi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813026305
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Trends in Twentieth-century Iran written by Negin Nabavi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the first collection of its kind. It brings together articles by historians, sociologists and political scientists as well as contributions by intellectuals and essayists currently engaged in the intellectual scene in Iran, thus outlining not only a range of intellectual concerns and trends in the tumultuous 20th century but also presenting authentic insights from a number of present-day participants."--Ahmad Ashraf, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University Intellectual Trends in Twentieth-Century Iran, a collection of essays by journalists and Iranian scholars based in both North America and the Middle East, examines the major intellectual trends in twentieth-century Iran and explores the role that the intellectual has played in shaping the debates and political culture in both prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary Iran. The issues discussed in this collection are among the most provocative in contemporary Iran and range from the hermeneutics of Mojtahed-Shabestari to the movement of the reformist press to clerical discourses on the subject of women's rights. Additionally, Intellectual Trends discusses broader issues such as Iranian liberalism and the relationship between tradition and modernity with a depth and insight that is essential in understanding the diverse issues facing a contemporary Middle East. Together, the collection provides a valuable account and analysis of the intellectual currents in this pivotal state across the last century. Contents Introduction Part I. Intellectual Discourse in Pahlavi Iran 1. The Ambivalent Modernity of Iranian Intellectuals, by Mehrzad Boroujerdi 2. Khalil Maleki: The Odd Intellectual Out, by Homa Katouzian 3. Ahmad Shamlu and the Contingency of Our Future, by Hamid Dabashi and Golriz Dahdel 4. The Discourse of "Authentic Culture" in Iran of the 1960s and 1970s, by Negin Nabavi Part II. Intellectual Expressions and Dynamics in Postrevolutionary Iran 5. Crossing the Desert: Iranian Intellectuals after the Islamic Revolution, by Morad Saghafi 6. Religious Intellectuals and Political Action in the Reform Movement, by Hamidreza Jalaeipour 7. Improvising in Public: Transgressive Politics of the Reformist Press in Postrevolutionary Iran, by Farideh Farhi 8. Sacral Defense of Secularism: Dissident Political Theology in Iran, by Mahmoud Sadri 9. Women's Rights and Clerical Discourses: The Legacy of 'Allameh Tabataba'i, by Ziba Mir-Hosseini Negin Nabavi is assistant professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University.

Both Eastern and Western

Author : Afshin Matin-Asgari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428533
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Both Eastern and Western written by Afshin Matin-Asgari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying intellectual trends in Iran in a global historical context, this new intellectual history challenges many dominant paradigms in Iranian historiography and offers a new revisionist interpretation of Iranian modernity.

Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

Author : Ali Gheissari
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292728042
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century by : Ali Gheissari

Download or read book Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century written by Ali Gheissari and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Iranian intellectuals have been preoccupied by issues of political and social reform, Iran's relation with the modern West, and autocracy, or arbitrary rule. Drawing from a close reading of a broad array of primary sources, this book offers a thematic account of the Iranian intelligentsia from the Constitutional movement of 1905 to the post-1979 revolution. Ali Gheissari shows how in Iran, as in many other countries, intellectuals have been the prime mediators between the forces of tradition and modernity and have contributed significantly to the formation of the modern Iranian self image. His analysis of intellectuals' response to a number of fundamental questions, such as nationalism, identity, and the relation between Islam and modern politics, sheds new light on the factors that led to the Iranian Revolution—the twentieth century's first major departure from Western political ideals—and helps explain the complexities surrounding the reception of Western ideologies in the Middle East.

City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran

Author : Setrag Manoukian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136627162
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran written by Setrag Manoukian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among history, poetry and politics, the book analyses how Shiraz came to be defined as the country’s cultural capital, and explains how Iranians have used the concept of culture as a way of thinking about themselves, their past and their relationship with the rest of the world. Weaving together a theoretical approach with extensive ethnographic research, the book suggests a model to integrate broad concerns with a nuanced analysis of Iran’s cultural traditions and practices. The author’s interdisciplinary approach sheds light on how contemporary Iranians relate to classical Persian poetry; on the relationship between expressive forms and the political imagination; and on the different ways teachers, professors, cultural managers, poets and scholars think and work. He describes how history and poetry are the two dominant modes to talk about the past, present and future of the town and demonstrates that the question of knowledge is crucial to an understanding of the political and existential dimensions of life in Iran today. This book will be a major contribution to the current effort to move away from nationalist views of Iranian history and culture, and as such will be of great interest to scholars of cultural anthropology, history, Middle Eastern studies and Iranian studies.

Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran

Author : Ali Mozaffari
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152615014X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran written by Ali Mozaffari and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between development as a globalizing project and the production of cultural specificities in developmental contexts? Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts.

Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment

Author : Ali Mirsepassi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493256
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment written by Ali Mirsepassi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali Mirsepassi's book presents a powerful challenge to the dominant media and scholarly construction of radical Islamist politics, and their anti-Western ideology, as a purely Islamic phenomenon derived from insular, traditional and monolithic religious 'foundations'. It argues that the discourse of political Islam has strong connections to important and disturbing currents in Western philosophy and modern Western intellectual trends. The work demonstrates this by establishing links between important contemporary Iranian intellectuals and the central influence of Martin Heidegger's philosophy. We are also introduced to new democratic narratives of modernity linked to diverse intellectual trends in the West and in non-Western societies, notably in India, where the ideas of John Dewey have influenced important democratic social movements. As the first book to make such connections, it promises to be an important contribution to the field and will do much to overturn some pervasive assumptions about the dichotomy between East and West.

Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity

Author : Kamran Scot Aghaie
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292757492
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity written by Kamran Scot Aghaie and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length study—until now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped this specialization, Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity shares innovative research and charts new areas of analysis from an array of scholars in the field. Delving into a wide range of theoretical and conceptual perspectives, the essays—all previously unpublished—encompass social history, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and comparative analysis to address such topics as: Ethnicity in the Islamic Republic of Iran Political Islam and religious nationalism The evolution of U.S.-Iranian relations before and after the Cold War Comparing Islamic and secular nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran The German counterrevolution and its influence on Iranian political alliances The effects of Israel's image as a Euro-American space Sufism Geocultural concepts in Azar's Atashkadeh Interdisciplinary in essence, the essays also draw from sociology, gender studies, and art and architecture. Posing compelling questions while challenging the conventional historiographical traditions, the authors (many of whom represent a new generation of Iranian studies scholars) give voice to a research approach that embraces the modern era's complexity while emphasizing Iranian nationalism's contested, multifaceted, and continuously transformative possibilities.

Iran in the 20th Century

Author : Touraj Atabaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771368X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Iran in the 20th Century written by Touraj Atabaki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political upheaval has marked Iran's history throughout the twentieth century. Wars, revolutions, coups and the impact of modernism have shaped Iran's historiography, as they have the country's history. Originally based on oral and written sources, which underpinned traditional genealogical and dynastic history, Iran's historiography was transformed in the early 20th century with the development of a 'new' school of presenting history. Here emphasis shifted from the anecdotal story-telling genre to social, political, economic, cultural and religious history-writing. A new understanding of the nation state and the importance of identity and foreign relations in defining Iran's place in the modern world all served to transform the perspective of Iranian historiography. Touraj Atabaki here brings together a range of rich contributions from international scholars who cover the leading themes of the historiography of 20th-century Iran, including constitutional reform and revolution, literature and architecture, identity, women and gender, nationalism, modernism, Orientalism, Marxism and Islamism.

Iran

Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415636892
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Iran written by Homa Katouzian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make modernisation possible, and the second, to overthrow the absolute and arbitrary state, though this time mainly under the banner of religion and Marxism-Leninism and anti-Westernism. Neither of them succeeded in their lofty ideals for reasons that are explained and analysed within. The author also offers a detailed description of Iran’s short-term society, examining the political and intellectual lives of two of the most remarkable intellectuals-cum-politicians of the twentieth century. This book provides an overview of modern Persian literature, both poetry and prose, and discusses the works of three of the most remarkable Persian poets and writers of the period. It considers classical Persian literature through the great variety of its form and substance, and neo-classical literary developments in the nineteenth century, covering the whole history of Persian literature. This is crowned in the last chapter by the love poetry of one of the greatest Persian poets. Iran will be of interest to students and scholars of Iranian studies and Middle East Politics.

Iranian Irony: Marxists Becoming Muslims

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434945375
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Iranian Irony: Marxists Becoming Muslims written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Iran

Author : Abbas Amanat
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300231466
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Iran written by Abbas Amanat and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic changes, revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupation, and the rise of the Islamic Republic. Abbas Amanat combines chronological and thematic approaches, exploring events with lasting implications for modern Iran and the world. Drawing on diverse historical scholarship and emphasizing the twentieth century, he addresses debates about Iran’s culture and politics. Political history is the driving narrative force, given impetus by Amanat's decades of research and study. He layers the book with discussions of literature, music, and the arts; ideology and religion; economy and society; and cultural identity and heritage.

A Social Revolution

Author : Kevan Harris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520965841
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Social Revolution written by Kevan Harris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution, Kevan Harris convincingly demonstrates how they are wrong. Previous studies ignore the forceful consequences of three decades of social change following the 1979 revolution. Today, more people in the country are connected to welfare and social policy institutions than to any other form of state organization. In fact, much of Iran’s current political turbulence is the result of the success of these social welfare programs, which have created newly educated and mobilized social classes advocating for change. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Iran, Harris shows how the revolutionary regime endured through the expansion of health, education, and aid programs that have both embedded the state in everyday life and empowered its challengers. This focus on the social policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran opens a new line of inquiry into the study of welfare states in countries where they are often overlooked or ignored.

Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran

Author : Stephen C. Poulson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739161016
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran written by Stephen C. Poulson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Stephen C. Poulson, a scholar of collective action and social movements, investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. He illuminates the following social movements: the 1890-1892 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-1909 Constitutional Revolution; two post-World War II movements, the Tudeh (Masses) and the National Front; the 1963 Qom Protest; and the 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution. These movements confronted two primary questions: How should the Iranian state achieve independence in the world and what rights should individual Iranians enjoy in their political and social system? Poulson examines the framing of these questions and their answers by various Iranian political actors over time, revealing both continuity and change.

A Social History of Modern Tehran

Author : Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009188895
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Modern Tehran written by Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines how Tehran's social spaces were transformed by shifting discourses and practices from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Christian Encounters with Iran

Author : Sasan Tavassoli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857719777
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Christian Encounters with Iran written by Sasan Tavassoli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interface between the current Shi'ite landscape and Christian thinking is of the greatest significance for the shifting political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Sasan Tavassoli here examines Iranian Shi'ite thinkers' encounters with Christian thought since the Islamic revolution of 1979, and provides insight into the cultural and intellectual climate surrounding Christian-Muslim dialogue in contemporary Iran. The literature on Christianity in Iran reveals a wide range of approaches and attitudes, and Tavassoli demonstrates that traditional polemics are giving way to a more descriptive and subjective understanding of Christian thought. He also studies Muslim-Christian dialogue and research conducted and supported by governmental as well as non-governmental organizations, and offers a close examination, with interviews, of the work of three prominent liberal religious intellectuals - Abdol Karim Soroush, Mostafa Malekian and Mojtahed Shabestari. Placing contemporary Shi'ite thought in the broad historical context of pre- and post-revolution Iran, Tavassoli relates concrete religious, cultural and socio-political realities to the themes and orientations in the latest phase of the Shi'i Islam-Christianity encounter, and offers fresh insight into the dynamism of contemporary Islam and the religious complexities of the Muslim world.

Democracy in Iran

Author : R. Jahanbegloo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137330171
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Iran written by R. Jahanbegloo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic government is something that has eluded Iran despite a series of non-violent revolutions aimed at establishing a system of governance that would promote both public freedom and political accountability. This explores the obstacles to the growth of democracy in Iran and posits a plan for non-violent action to help Iranians achieve it.

Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran

Author : Pamela Karimi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135101388
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran written by Pamela Karimi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Iran’s recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres. On the cusp of Iran’s entry into modernity, the rules and tenets that had traditionally defined the Iranian home began to vanish and the influx of new household goods gradually led to the substantial physical expansion of the domestic milieu. Subsequently, architects, designers, and commercial advertisers shifted their attention from commercial and public architecture to the new home and its contents. Domesticity and consumer culture also became topics of interest among politicians, Shiite religious scholars, and the Left, who communicated their respective views via the popular media and numerous other means. In the interim, ordinary Iranian families, who were capable of selectively appropriating aspects of their immediate surroundings, demonstrated their resistance toward the officially sanctioned transformations. Through analyzing a series of case studies that elucidate such phenomena and appraising a wide range of objects and archival documents—from furnishings, appliances, architectural blueprints, and maps to photographs, films, TV series, novels, artworks, scrapbooks, work-logs, personal letters and reports—this book highlights the significance of private life in social, economic, and political contexts of modern Iran. Tackling the subject of home from a variety of perspectives, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran thus shows the interplay between local aspirations, foreign influences, gender roles, consumer culture and women’s education as they intersect with taste, fashion, domestic architecture and interior design.