Making History in Iran
Title | Making History in Iran PDF eBook |
Author | Farzin Vejdani |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2014-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080479281X |
Iranian history was long told through a variety of stories and legend, tribal lore and genealogies, and tales of the prophets. But in the late nineteenth century, new institutions emerged to produce and circulate a coherent history that fundamentally reshaped these fragmented narratives and dynastic storylines. Farzin Vejdani investigates this transformation to show how cultural institutions and a growing public-sphere affected history-writing, and how in turn this writing defined Iranian nationalism. Interactions between the state and a cross-section of Iranian society—scholars, schoolteachers, students, intellectuals, feminists, and poets—were crucial in shaping a new understanding of nation and history. This enlightening book draws on previously unexamined primary sources—including histories, school curricula, pedagogical materials, periodicals, and memoirs—to demonstrate how the social locations of historians writ broadly influenced their interpretations of the past. The relative autonomy of these historians had a direct bearing on whether history upheld the status quo or became an instrument for radical change, and the writing of history became central to debates on social and political reform, the role of women in society, and the criteria for citizenship and nationality. Ultimately, this book traces how contending visions of Iranian history were increasingly unified as a centralized Iranian state emerged in the early twentieth century.
America and Iran
Title | America and Iran PDF eBook |
Author | John Ghazvinian |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307271811 |
"A history of the relationship between Iran and America from the 1700s through the current day"--
Iran
Title | Iran PDF eBook |
Author | Abbas Amanat |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300248937 |
A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first
Revolutionary Iran
Title | Revolutionary Iran PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Axworthy |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 535 |
Release | 2016-03-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190468963 |
In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy offers a richly textured and authoritative history of Iran from the 1979 revolution to the present.
A History of Iran
Title | A History of Iran PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Axworthy |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2016-05-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465098770 |
The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim clerics in the world, yet its poetry insistently dwells on the joys of life: wine, beauty, sex. Iranian women are subject to one of the most restrictive dress codes in the Islamic world, but make up nearly 60 percent of the student population of the nation's universities. In A History of Iran, acclaimed historian Michael Axworthy chronicles the rich history of this complex nation from the Achaemenid Empire of sixth century BC to the revolution of 1979 to today, including a close look at Iran's ongoing attempts to become a nuclear power. A History of Iran offers general readers an essential guide to understanding this volatile nation, which is once again at the center of the world's attention.
Nationalizing Iran
Title | Nationalizing Iran PDF eBook |
Author | Afshin Marashi |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0295800615 |
When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred kingship. By 1941, when Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi came to power, his claim to authority as the Shah of Iran was infused with the language of modern nationalism. In short, between roughly 1870 and 1940, Iran's traditional monarchy was forged into a modern nation-state. In Nationalizing Iran, Afshin Marashi explores the changes that made possible this transformation of Iran into a social abstraction in which notions of state, society, and culture converged. He follows Naser al-Din Shah on a tour of Europe in 1873 that led to his importing a new public image of monarchy-an image based on the European late imperial model-relying heavily on the use of public ceremonies, rituals, and festivals to promote loyalty to the monarch. Meanwhile, Iranian intellectuals were reimagining ethnic history to reconcile “authentic” Iranian culture with the demands of modernity. From the reform of public education to the symbolism surrounding grand public ceremonies in honor of long-dead poets, Marashi shows how the state invented and promoted key features of the common culture binding state and society. The ideological thrust of that century would become the source of dramatic contestation in the late twentieth century. Marashi's study of the formative era of Iranian nationalism will be valuable to scholars and students of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, as well as journalists, policy makers, and other close observers of contemporary Iran.
The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History PDF eBook |
Author | Touraj Daryaee |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2012-02-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199732159 |
This handbook is a guide to Iran's complex history. The book emphasizes the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while also describing the important patterns of transformation that have characterized Iran's past.