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Iran as Imagined Nation / Mostafa Vaziri.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463202279
  • 9781463235567
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.540955
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 the adoption of a broad nationalist construction of identity to suit Iranian political and ideological circumstances. This book argues that such a broad-brushed approach and the term “Iranian” could not have applied to the large multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural populations in the vast territory of Iran over so many distinct historical periods.

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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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 the adoption of a broad nationalist construction of identity to suit Iranian political and ideological circumstances. This book argues that such a broad-brushed approach and the term “Iranian” could not have applied to the large multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural populations in the vast territory of Iran over so many distinct historical periods.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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