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"Arguably the field's most significant contribution to date... Such a work is long overdue." -- David Yaghoubian, Associate Professor of History, California State University San Bernardino, and author of Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran

Table of Contents

Introduction (Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi)

Part 1. Orientalism, Modernity, and Historiography

Chapter 1. Paradigms of Iranian Nationalism: History, Theory, and Historiography (Afshin Marashi)

Chapter 2. Franz Babinger and the Legacy of the "German Counter- Revolution" in Early Modern Iranian Historiography (Ali Anooshahr)

Chapter 3. The Berlin Circle: Iranian Nationalism Meets German Countermodernity (Afshin Matin-Asgari)

Chapter 4. The Love That Dare Not Be Translated: Erasures of Premodern Sexuality in Modern Persian Mysticism (Wendy DeSouza)

Part 2. Imagining Iran: Land, Ethnicity, and Place

Chapter 5. Imagining Iran before Nationalism: Geocultural Meanings of Land in Azar's Atashkadeh (Mana Kia)

Chapter 6. The Khuzistani Arab Movement, 1941–1946: A Case of Nationalism? (Brian Mann)

Chapter 7. "The Portals of Persepolis": The Role of Nationalism in Early U.S.-Iranian Relations (Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet)

Chapter 8. An Iranian in New York:ʾAbbas Masʿudi’s Description of the Non-Iranian on the Eve of the Cold War (Camron Michael Amin)

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 (Kamran Scot Aghaie)

Chapter 10. The Place of Islam in Interwar Iranian Nationalist Historiography (Farzin Vejdani)

Chapter 11. Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity and the Construction of New Histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Touraj Atabaki)

Chapter 12. Return of the Avant-garde to the Streets of Tehran (Talinn Grigor)

Chapter 13. Construction of Iran's National Identity: Three Discourses (Sussan Siavoshi)

Chapter 14. Relocating a Common Past and the Making of East-centric Modernity: Islamic and Secular Nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran (Hanan Hammad)

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 (Haggai Ram)

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

About the Author

Kamran Scot Aghaie is Associate Professor of Islamic and Iranian History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies His previous books are The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam and The Martyrs of Karbala: Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran. Afshin Marashi is the Farzaneh Family Associate Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where he is also Director of the Iranian Studies Program. His previous publications include the book Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870–1940.

Reviews

"Their efforts are laudable and their contribution a welcome addition that enriches the historiography of Iranian nationalism. The book should serve graduate students, researchers, and academics in Iranian history and contemporary Iranian politics well."
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