Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective

by A. Amanat (Editor), F. Vejdani (Editor)

Overview

Iran's long history and complex cultural legacy have generated animated debates about a homogenous Iranian identity in the face of ethnic, linguistic and communal diversity. The volume examines the fluid boundaries of pre-modern identity in history and literature as well as the shaping of Iranian national identity in the 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349286898
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/10/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

ABBAS AMANAT Professor of History and International and Area Studies at Yale University, USA.

FARZIN VEJDANIGraduate student at Yale University, USA.

Table of Contents

PART I: LEGACY OF CULTURAL EXCLUSION Iran and Aniran: The Shaping of a Legend; D.Davis Redrawing the Boundaries of ' Ajam in Early Modern Persian Literary History; S.Sharma PART II: THE INTERNAL FRONTIERS Iranian History in Transition: Recasting the Symbolic Identity of Babak Khorramdin; T.Atabaki Across the Black Sands and the Red: Travel and the Frontiers of Nineteenth-Century Central Asia; A.Khazeni PART III: EMPIRES AND ENCOUNTERS Facing a Rude and Barbarous Neighbor: Iranian Perceptions of Russia and the Russians from the Safavids to the Qajars; R.Matthee British Imperialism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in Iran, 1889-1919; H.L.Stebbins Shifting Loyalties in Imperial Borderlands: Safavid Renegades and Ottoman Rebels; F.Zarinebaf PART IV: SELF-FASHIONING AND OTHERING The Academic Debate on Iran and Iranian Identity: Challenging Nationalist and Orientalist Narratives; A.Matin-Asgari Some Thoughts on Inter-Societal Linkages between Iran and Iraq; H.Chehabi PART V: DOMESTIC AND GLOBALIZED ANXIETIES Dolgoruki's 'Memoirs': From Fiction to Master Narrative; M.Yazdani Zoroastrians of Iran and Parsis of India: A Dilemma of Identity; M.Ringer