The emergence of Iranian nationalism : race and the politics of dislocation /
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of two intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. These thinkers cast pre-Islamic Iran as a golden age, radicalized Islam as an alien religion, and portrayed Arabs as implacable others, ultimately tying Iran to Europe and the Aryan race.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transliteration and spelling
- Introduction
- 1. The paleontology of Iranian nationalism
- 2. Akhundzadeh and Kermani: the emergence of dislocative nationalism
- 3. Pre-Islamic Iran and archaistic frenzy
- 4. Of lizard eaters and invasions: the import of European racial thought
- 5. Europe, that faraway but close idol
- 6. Aryanism and dislocation
- 7. The road to officialdom
- 8. Triumph
- Conclusion: The failure of dislocative nationalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.