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Book SynopsisThis book examines the role of Iranian intellectuals in the history of Iranian modernity. It traces the contributions of intellectuals in the construction of national identity and the Iranian democratic debate, analyzing how intellectuals balanced indebtedness to the West with the issue of national identity in Iran. Recognizing how intellectual elites became beholden to political powers, the contributors demonstrate the trend that intellectuals often opted for cultural dissent rather than ideological politics.
Table of ContentsPart I: Iranian Intellectuals,Nationalism and State: from Qajar to Early Pahlavi
Chapter 1: Amir Kabir: A Reformist and Pioneer of Modernization in the Traditional State
Chapter 2: Crafitng Iranian National Imaginary:The Interwar Period (1918-1935)
Chapter 3: British Whiggism and the Iranian Enlightenment in the 19th Century
Partt II: Iranian Intellectuals:Between Traditional Values and Modern State
Chapter 4: Third-Worldist Iranian intellectuals: Shariati and Ale-Ahmad
Chapter 5: Sadeq Hedayat: Iranian Fiction and the Experience of Modernity
Chapter 6: Rethinking the Legacy of Intellectual-Statesmen in Iran
Part III: Women Intellectuals in Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Iran
Chapter 7: Women’s rights in Iran’s experiment with modernity
Chapter 8: “And, here I am,” Forugh Farrokhzad and Modernity
Chapter 9: Simin Daneshvar: The Forging of an Intellectual
Part IV: Iranian Left: From Marxist Intellectualism to Revolutionary Romanticism
Chapter 10: The perplexity of the Iranian Marxist Intellectuals in this 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 11: Intellectual Statesmen and the Making of Iran’s Illiberal Nation-State(1921-1926)
