These essays examine Iran’s place in the world–its relations and cultural interactions with its immediate neighbors and with empires and superpowers from the beginning of the Safavid period in 1501 to the present day. The book provides important historical background on recent political and social developments in Iran and on its contemporary foreign relations. The topics explored include Iranian influence abroad on political organization, religion, literature, art, and diplomacy, as well as Iran’s absorption of foreign influences in these areas. A special focus is the prevailing political culture of Iran throughout its early modern and contemporary periods.
The authors combine approaches from history, political science, anthropology, international relations, and culturalstudies. Some essays address Iran’s interactions with various Arab and Turkic ethnicities in the region stretching from India to Egypt. Others examine its relations with the West during the Qajar and Pahlavi eras, women’s issues, culture inside Iran during the Islamic Republic, and the Shi`ite theocracy of Iran as compared with other Muslim states.
Зміст
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
PART ONE: OVERVIEWS
Iranian Culture and South Asia, 1500-1900
Beyond Translation: Interactions between English and Persian Poetry
Turk, Persian, and Arab: Changing Relationships between Tribes and State in Iran and along its Frontiers
PART TWO: THE SAFAVID, QAJAR, AND PAHLAVI PERIODS
The Early Safavids and Their Cultural Interactions with Surrounding States
Suspicion, Fear, and Admiration: Pre-Nineteenth-Century Iranian Views of the English and the Russians
The Quest for the Secret of Strength in Iranian Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature: Rethinking Tradition in the ‘Safarnameh’
Cultures of Iranianness: The Evolving Polemic of Iranian Nationalism
Foreign Education, the Women’s Press, and the Discourse of Scientific Domesticity in Early-Twentieth-Century Iran
PART THREE: CULTURE IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE WORLD
International Connections of the Iranian Women’s Movement
The Presentation of the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in Postrevolutionary Iranian School Textbooks
Cinematic Exchange Relations: Iran and the West
PART FOUR: POLITICAL-CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH THE MUSLIM WORLD
The Failed Pan-Islamic Program of the Islamic Republic: Views of the Liberal Reformers of the Religious ‘Semi-Opposition’
Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and Anxieties
The Iranian Revolution and Changes in Islamism in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan
PART FIVE: THE POLITICS OF IRAN’S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Iran’s Foreign Policy: A Revolution in Transition
The Contributors
Index
Про автора
Nikki R. Keddie is professor emerita of history at UCLA and the author of many books, including Women in Middle Eastern History and Iran and the Muslim World. Rudi Matthee is associate professor of history at the University of Delaware. Other contributors are Bahman Baktiari, Thomas J. Barfield, Asef Bayat, Wilfried Buchta, Juan R. I. Cole, Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Golnar Mehran, Hamid Naficy, Vali Nasr, Monica M. Ringer, Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, Gary Sick, Abolala Soudavar, and Nayereh Tohidi.
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