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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 6|18 pages
Gendering the nation
Masculinity and nationalism in Iran during the Constitutional Revolution
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 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