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Iran facing others = identity boundaries in a historical perspective /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Iran facing others/ edited by Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani.
Reminder of title:	identity boundaries in a historical perspective /
other author:	Amanat, Abbas.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 292 p.)
Subject:	National characteristics, Iranian. -
Subject:	Iran - Social policy. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9781137013408 (electronic bk.)

Iran facing others = identity boundaries in a historical perspective /
Iran facing othersidentity boundaries in a historical perspective /[electronic resource] :edited by Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 292 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --

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. The formation of a national Self in modern times involved not only Iran's collective memory and adherence to Shi'ism but encounters with external Others such as the Ottoman, Russian, and British empires. Dealings with the modern Iraqi neighbor also reveal blurred identity boundaries. Anxieties about domestic Others, such as Jews, Baha'is, and Zoroastrians, have informed Iran's nationalist and contemporary Islamic narratives.

ISBN: 9781137013408 (electronic bk.)

Source: 580115Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.com

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015673651UkSubjects--Topical Terms:

835257
National characteristics, Iranian.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

793534
Iran
--Social policy.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS268 / .I73 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 955

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505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Part One: Legacy of Cultural Exclusion * Iran and Aniran: The Shaping of a Legend -- Dick Davis * Redrawing the Boundaries of 'Ajam in Early Modern Persian Literary History -- Sunil Sharma * Part Two: The Internal Frontiers * Iranian History in Transition: Recasting the Symbolic Identity of Babak Khorramdin -- Touraj Atabaki * Across the Black Sands and the Red: Travel and the Frontiers of Nineteenth-Century Central Asia -- Arash Khazeni * Part Three: Empires and Encounters * Facing a Rude and Barbarous Neighbor: Iranian Perceptions of Russia and the Russians from the Safavids to the Qajars -- Rudi Matthee * British Imperialism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in Iran, 1889-1919 -- H. Lyman Stebbins * Shifting Loyalties in Imperial Borderlands: Safavid Renegades and Ottoman Rebels -- Fariba Zarinebaf * Part Four: Self-Fashioning and Othering * The Academic Debate on Iran and Iranian Identity: Challenging Nationalist and Orientalist Narratives -- Afshin Matin-Asgari * Some Thoughts on Inter-Societal Linkages between Iran and Iraq -- Houchang Chehabi * Part Five: Domestic and Globalized Anxieties * Dolgoruki's 'Memoirs': From Fiction to Master Narrative -- Mina Yazdani * Zoroastrians of Iran and Parsis of India: A Dilemma of Identity -- Monica Ringer.
520 $a 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. The formation of a national Self in modern times involved not only Iran's collective memory and adherence to Shi'ism but encounters with external Others such as the Ottoman, Russian, and British empires. Dealings with the modern Iraqi neighbor also reveal blurred identity boundaries. Anxieties about domestic Others, such as Jews, Baha'is, and Zoroastrians, have informed Iran's nationalist and contemporary Islamic narratives.
520 $a "This collection of essays is about Iranian identity in its various manifestations as it encountered the challenge of modernity. It problematizes the notion of an all-inclusive and universal "Iranian-ness" while considering the place of collective memory and sense of community. It consists of five parts organized along thematic lines. The first part, "The Legacy of Cultural Exclusion," deals with the medieval and early modern attempts to define notions of Iran and 'ajam and its supposed others--aniran, Turco-Mongols, and South Asians--through the Persian medieval epic, the Shahnamah, Persian literary histories and tazkirahs. The second part, "The Internal Frontiers," deals with the question of identity at the frontiers of Iran, including nineteenth century travel narratives in Khurasan, Azerbaijani regional re-readings of the significance of Babak Khorramdin, and Qashqa'i attitudes towards the "Iranian" state. The third part, "Empires and Encounters," examines the nature of Iranian interactions with Empires--Russian, British and Ottoman--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis of political and cultural "othering". The fourth part, "Identity and Iranian Political Cultures," discusses the Iranian intellectual engagement with Orientalism and the shaping of Iranian understandings of self and other in the twentieth century. Part five, "Globalized anxieties," expands on the theme of Iranian cultural anxieties--both domestically and internationally--and how the modern Iranian state (including the Islamic Republic) copes with the challenges of globalization, the treatment of its own minorities, and imagined domestic enemies. Finally, it addresses how Iranian diaspora communities negotiate their identities abroad, particularly in the United States"-- $c Provided by publisher.
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