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245	0	0	_aIran Facing Others : Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective /
260			_aNew York : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2012.
300			_axiii, 292 p. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aIncludes essay on the origins of conspiracy theories relating to Iranian Baha'is. Yazdani, M. (2012). The Confessions of Dolgoruki: The Crisis of Identity and the Creation of a Master Narrative. Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective. A. Amanat and F. Vejdani. New York, Palgrave MacMillan: 245-266.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	8		_aMachine 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"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPersecution _vBaha'i Faith _zIran _9371
650		0	_aIranian Identity Politics _91236
651		0	_aIran _xForeign relations.
700			_aAbbas Amanat _9293 _eEditor
700			_aFarzin Vejdani _91232 _eEditor
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