Iran as Imagined Nation /

Iran as Imagined Nation / / Mostafa Vaziri.

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A critical study of how Iranian nationalism, itself largely influenced by Orientalist scholarship first undertaken by the European Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has shaped modern conceptions of Iran and Iranian identity, as well as narratives of Iranian history, leading to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Vaziri, Mostafa,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword to the Second Edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Europe: The Dawn of National Identity
  • Chapter 2. Europe Approaches the Orient
  • Chapter 3. The Conceptualization of Iran in a Nationalistic Context
  • Chapter 4. Iranshahr and Synonymous Designations: A Political-Historical Inquiry
  • Chapter 5. Problems and Context of National Historiography and the Invention of an Iranian Identity
  • Chapter 6. Dynastic Connection and Identity Construct
  • Chapter 7. Nationalistic Historiography and Identity Construct in Iran
  • Chapter 8. The Emergence of Iranian Identity
  • Chapter 9. Iranian Identity, Muslim Identity, and Cultural Schizophrenia
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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