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Perceptions of Iran : history, myths and nationalism from medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic / edited by Ali M. Ansari.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, 2014Description: xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848858305
  • 1848858302
Related works:
  • Contains (work): Ansari, Ali M. Myth, history and narrative displacement in Iranian historiography
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 955 23
Contents:
Myth, history and narrative displacement in Iranian historiography / Ali M. Ansari -- History, national identity and myths in Iranian contemporary political thought : Mirza Fathali Akhundzadeh (1812-78), Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani (1853-96) and Hassan Taqizadeh (1878-1970) / Pejman Abdolmohammadi -- Ancient Iran in the imagination of the medieval West / Robert Bartlett -- History and chronology in early modern Iran : the Safavid Empire in comparative perspective / Stephen P. Blake -- Historiography in late antique Iran / Touraj Daryaee -- Reverse Orientalism : Iranian reactions to the West / Farhang Jahanpour -- Herodotus' Cyrus and political freedom / Lynette Mitchell -- Iran and the Aryan myth / David Motadel -- History and its meaning in the Islamic Republic of Iran : the case of the Mongol invasion(s) and rule / Anja Pistor-Hatam -- Safavid Persia through Italian eyes : from reign of freedom to land of oppression / Elisa Sabadini -- History and Iranian drama : the case of Bahram Beyzaie / Saeed Talajooy.
This text dissects the construction of Iranian identity to reveal how nationalism has been continually re-formulated and how self-perceptions have been carried by Iran's literary past, in particular the mystical love poetry of Rumi, Sa'adi and Hafez.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index.

Myth, history and narrative displacement in Iranian historiography / Ali M. Ansari -- History, national identity and myths in Iranian contemporary political thought : Mirza Fathali Akhundzadeh (1812-78), Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani (1853-96) and Hassan Taqizadeh (1878-1970) / Pejman Abdolmohammadi -- Ancient Iran in the imagination of the medieval West / Robert Bartlett -- History and chronology in early modern Iran : the Safavid Empire in comparative perspective / Stephen P. Blake -- Historiography in late antique Iran / Touraj Daryaee -- Reverse Orientalism : Iranian reactions to the West / Farhang Jahanpour -- Herodotus' Cyrus and political freedom / Lynette Mitchell -- Iran and the Aryan myth / David Motadel -- History and its meaning in the Islamic Republic of Iran : the case of the Mongol invasion(s) and rule / Anja Pistor-Hatam -- Safavid Persia through Italian eyes : from reign of freedom to land of oppression / Elisa Sabadini -- History and Iranian drama : the case of Bahram Beyzaie / Saeed Talajooy.

This text dissects the construction of Iranian identity to reveal how nationalism has been continually re-formulated and how self-perceptions have been carried by Iran's literary past, in particular the mystical love poetry of Rumi, Sa'adi and Hafez.