ABSTRACT

Nationalism has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual discourse of modernity that emerged in Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present, promoting new formulations of collective identity and advocating a new and more active role for the broad strata of the public in politics. The essays in this volume seek to shed light on the construction of nationalism in Iran in its many manifestations; cultural, social, political and ideological, by exploring on-going debates on this important and progressive topic.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|22 pages

The construction of Iranian national identity

An overview

chapter 3|8 pages

Persian-Iranian national identity

The longue durée, from Achaemenid times onward

chapter 6|18 pages

Gendering the nation

Masculinity and nationalism in Iran during the Constitutional Revolution

chapter 7|15 pages

Nationalism and Islam in a provincial setting

Late Qajar Isfahan

chapter 10|12 pages

Iranian nationalism, Islamic unity and Shi‘ism in Iran’s regional policy

From the Pahlavis to the Islamic Republic

chapter 11|16 pages

Surveying the ‘Sheikhdoms’ of the Persian Gulf, 1966–1973

Newspaperman ‘Abbas Mas‘udi and the construction of Iranian nationalism in foreign policy

chapter 12|15 pages

“True Muslims must always be tidy and clean”

Exoticism of the countryside in late Pahlavi Iran

chapter 13|17 pages

“The Jew has a lot of money, too”

Representations of Jews in twentieth-century Iranian culture

chapter 15|15 pages

Pre-revolutionary Islamic discourse in Iran as nationalism

Islamism in Iran as nationalism

chapter 17|19 pages

Beyond boundaries

Iranian Azeris in an age of globalization

chapter 18|15 pages

Guarding the nation

The Iranian revolutionary guards, nationalism and the Iran-Iraq War

chapter 19|16 pages

From state to nation and from nation to state in Egypt

The role of the state in the formation of nationalism and the role of nationalism in the formation of the state, 1805–1952