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Cover |
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Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective |
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Contents |
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Preface |
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INTRODUCTION: Iranian Identity Boundaries: A Historical Overview |
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National Identity as a Construct |
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Legacy of an Ancient Past |
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Contested Notions of Iran |
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Shi'i Identity under the Safavids |
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Emergence of National Identity under the Qajars |
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Nationalist Identity in the Pahlavi Era |
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Self and Other in the Islamic Republic |
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Notes |
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PART I: The Legacy of Cultural Exclusion and Contested Memories |
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CHAPTER 1: Iran and Aniran: The Shaping of a Legend |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER 2: Redrawing the Boundaries of 'Ajam in Early Modern Persian Literary Histories |
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Introduction: Iranian versus Persian Literary History |
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Shifting Literary Views in Iran |
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The Indian Conception of 'Ajam |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER 3: Iranian History in Transition: Recasting the Symbolic Identity of Babak Khorramdin |
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The Revolt of Babak |
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Historiography of Babak’s Revolt and Iranian Transitional Identities |
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Crafting Identity: A Political Project |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
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PART II: Empires and Encounters |
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CHAPTER 4: Rebels and Renegades on Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Porous Frontiers and Hybrid Identities |
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A Safavid Prince in Istanbul |
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An Ottoman Prince in Qazvin |
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Celali Rebels in Iran |
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The Qizilbash in Ottoman Service |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER 5: Facing a Rude and Barbarous Neighbor: Iranian Perceptions of Russia and the Russians from the Safavids to the Qajars |
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Antecedents |
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Changing Perceptions |
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Russian Expansionism |
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The Intensification of Contacts through Travel |
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Political Issues |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER 6: Through the Persian Eye: Anglophilia and Anglophobia in Modern Iranian History |
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Facing a Friend or a Foe? |
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Admiring the English Way |
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Hope and Despair during the Constitutional Revolution and After |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER 7: British Imperialism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in Iran, 1890–1919 |
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Imperialism |
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Regionalism |
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Nationalism |
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Notes |
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PART III: Nationalism and the Appropriation of the Past |
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CHAPTER 8: The Academic Debate on Iranian Identity: Nation and Empire Entangled |
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The Persian-National Paradigm of Iranian Identity |
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Academic Challenges to the Persian- National Identity Paradigm |
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The 2005–6 Iranica Definition of Iranian Identity: Synthesizing Irreconcilable Perspectives |
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Epilogue: The Disentanglement of Imperial and National History |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER 9: Iran and Iraq: Intersocietal Linkages and Secular Nationalisms |
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The Communities |
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Cultural Affinities |
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Iranian and Iraqi Nationalisms |
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Arabs and Persian through the Ages |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
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PART IV: Self-Fashioning and Internal Othering |
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CHAPTER 10: Identity among the Jews of Iran |
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Espousing Another Identity |
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Conversions: “Outwardly we are all Muslims |
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Iranian Jews |
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Equal Iranians? |
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Identities |
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In an Islamic State |
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Migration |
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Subidentities |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER 11: The Confessions of Dolgoruki: The Crisis of Identity and the Creation of a Master Narrative |
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History: How The Confessions Emerged and Its Different Editions |
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The Spectrum of Responses |
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Key Elements of the Author’s Weltanschauung |
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Hegemonic Sociopolitical Discourses of the Time |
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The Literary and Sociohistorical Context of The Confessions of Dolgoruki |
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The Confessions of Dolgoruki and the Formation of Iranian Identity |
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Who Was the Creator of The Confessions? Some Notes on Weltanschauung and Intertextuality |
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Discussion and Conclusion |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER 12: Iranian Nationalism and Zoroastrian Identity: Between Cyrus and Zoroaster |
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Notes |
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Contributors |
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Index |
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