Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity / / ed. by Afshin Marashi, Kamran Scot Aghaie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Aghaie, Kamran Scot,; Amin, Camron Michael,; Anooshahr, Ali,; Atabaki, Touraj,; De Souza, Wendy,; Grigor, Talinn,; Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh,; Kia, Mana,; Mann, Brian,; Marashi, Afshin,; Matin-Asgari, Afshin,; Ram, Haggai,; Siavoshi, Sussan,; Vejdani, Farzin,
• HerausgeberIn: Aghaie, Kamran Scot,; Marashi, Afshin,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)

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 Delving into a wide range of theoretical and conceptual perspectives, the essays—all previously unpublished—encompass social history, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and comparative analysis to address such topics as: Ethnicity in the Islamic Republic of Iran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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1 ORIENTALISM, MODERNITY, AND HISTORIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 1 Paradigms of Iranian Nationalism: History, Theory, and Historiography -- CHAPTER 2 Franz Babinger and the Legacy of the “German Counter-Revolution” in Early Modern Iranian Historiography -- CHAPTER 3 The Berlin Circle: Iranian Nationalism Meets German Countermodernity -- CHAPTER 4 The Love That Dare Not Be Translated: Erasures of Premodern Sexuality in Modern Persian Mysticism -- PART 2 IMAGINING IRAN: LAND, ETHNICITY, AND PLACE -- CHAPTER 5 Imagining Iran before Nationalism: Geocultural Meanings of Land in Azar’s Atashkadeh -- CHAPTER 6 The Khuzistani Arab Movement, 1941–1946: A Case of Nationalism? -- CHAPTER 7 “The Portals of Persepolis”: The Role of Nationalism in Early U.S.-Iranian Relations -- CHAPTER 8 An Iranian in New York: ʿAbbas Masʿudi’s Description of the Non-Iranian on the Eve of the Cold War -- PART 3 RELIGION, NATIONALISM, AND CONTESTED VISIONS OF MODERNITY -- CHAPTER 9 Islamic-Iranian Nationalism and Its Implications for the Study of Political Islam and Religious Nationalism -- CHAPTER 10 The Place of Islam in Interwar Iranian Nationalist Historiography -- CHAPTER 11 Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity and the Construction of New Histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- CHAPTER 12 Return of the Avant-garde to the Streets of Tehran -- CHAPTER 13 Construction of Iran’s National Identity: Three Discourses -- CHAPTER 14 Relocating a Common Past and the Making of East-centric Modernity: Islamic and Secular Nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran -- CHAPTER 15 “East Is East, and West Is West, and Never the Twain Shall Meet”? Post-1979 Iran and the Fragile Fiction of Israel as a Euro-American Space -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- INDEX