Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History
This book analyzes the role of intellectuals as the prime mediators between the forces of tradition and modernity in twentieth century and twenty-first century Iran.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History
- Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Note
- Part I Iranian Intellectuals, Nationalism, and State: From Qajar to Early Pahlavi
- Chapter 1
- Amir Kabir
- Introduction
- Historical Context of Iran in the Nineteenth Century
- An Atypical Path of a Young Self-Taught and Ambitious Politician
- Three Political Missions Abroad
- At the Summit of Power
- Three Years of Reforms
- First Iranian Institution of Modern Education
- The Minorities and Repression of Bab's Movement
- The Downfall of Mirza Taqi Khan Amir Kabir
- Amir Kabir's Heritage
- Secularization of the Iranian Society
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2
- Crafting Iranian National Imaginary
- Introduction
- The Idea of Cosmopolitan Nationalism
- The Iranian Interwar Experience (1919-1934)
- Iranians in Interwar Berlin
- The Ruşeni (Barkın) Affairs
- Arani and the Question of Azerbaijan
- Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Nation
- Language against Lived Experience
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3
- British Whiggism and the Iranian Enlightenment in the Nineteenth Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part II Iranian Intellectuals: Between Traditional Values and Modern State
- Chapter 4
- Third-Worldist Iranian Intellectuals
- Shariati and Ale-Ahmad's Common Background
- Westtoxication
- The Role of the Clergy and the Intellectuals
- Democracy
- The Anti-Shah Stance of Shariati and Ale-Ahmad
- Discourse on Authenticity: Ale-Ahmad and Shariati
- Differences between Ale-Ahmad and Shariati
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5
- Sadeq Hedayat
- Notes
- Chapter 6
- Rethinking the Legacy of Intellectual-Statesmen in Iran
- Qajar Era
- Intellectual-Statesmen of the Reza Shah Period
- Mohammad Reza Shah Period
- The Ethical Challenge
- Appendix: Short Biographies of Intellectual-Statesmen
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part III Women Intellectuals in Pre- and Postrevolutionary Iran
- Chapter 7
- Women's Rights in Iran's Experiment with Modernity
- Introduction
- Secular Intellectuals and Women's Rights
- Agents of Modernity
- Under the Rule of the Ayatollahs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8
- "And, Here I Am," Forugh Farrokhzad and Modernity
- Notes
- Chapter 9
- Simin Daneshvar
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part IV Iranian Left: From Marxist Intellectualism to Revolutionary Romanticism
- Chapter 10
- The Perplexity of the Iranian Marxist Intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s
- Introduction
- Post-coup Crisis and the Formation of the Development State
- The Outcomes of the Governmental Reforms and the Perplexity of the New Marxists Intellectuals
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 11
- Intellectual Statesmen and the Making of Iran's Illiberal Nation-State (1921-1926)