Description
Book SynopsisProvides important historical background on recent political and social developments in Iran.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
