Politics of modern Iran/ Ansari, Ali M

VOLUME I HISTORY & HISTORIOGRAPHY
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Chronological table ofreprinted articles and chapters xv
Introduction ^
ALI M. ANSARI
PART 1
Historiography
1 The historians of the constitutional movement and the
making ofthe Iranian populist tradition 19
M. REZA AFSHARl
2 'Persia' in the Western imagination 39
ALI M. ANSARI
3 Problems in Iranian historiography 52
FEREYDOUN ADAMIYAT
4 Thestudy of history in post-revolutionary Iran: nostalgia,
illusion, or historical awareness? 67
ABBAS AMANAT
5 History used and abused 82
ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN
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History 101
6 Kasravi: the integrative nationalist of Iran 103
F.RVAND ABRAHAMIAN
7 Oriental despotism: the case of Qajar Iran 131
IIRVAND ABRAHAMIAN
8 MTrza Aqa Khan KirmanT: a nineteenth century Persian
nationalist 161
MANGOL BAYAT PHILIPP
9 Staging the emperor's new clothes: dress codes and
nation-building under Reza Shah 188
HOUCIIANG II. CIinilABI
10 Iranian nationalism and Reza Shah 210
M. REZA GHODS
11 Government and society in Iran, 1926-34 221
M. REZA GHODS
12 The short-term society: a study in the problems of long-term
political and economic development in Iran 233
HOMA KATOUZIAN
13 Reza Shah's court minister: Teymourtash 254
MIRON REZUN
14 Imperial power and dictatorship: Britain and
the rise of Reza Shah, 1921-1926 275
MICHAEL P. ZIRINSKY
VOLUME II POLITICS
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15 Britain and the overthrow of the Mosaddeq government l
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16 The 1953 coup in Iran 52
ERVAND ABRAUAMIAN
17 The crowd in the Iranian Revolution 79
ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN
18 The paranoid style in Iranian politics 104
ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN
19 The three cultures 121
ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH
20 What is (Iranian) national character? Asociolinguistic approach 136
WILLIAM O. BEEMAN
21 Theplasticity of informal politics: the case of Iran 153
JAMES A. BILL
22 The politics ofstudent alienation: the case of Iran 173
JAMES A. BILL
23 Popularity of Islamic and Persian names in Iran before and
after the Islamic Revolution 187
NADER HABIBI
24 Arbitrary rule: a comparative theory of state, politics and
society in Iran 195
HOMA KATOUZIAN
25 Ayatollah Kashani: precursor oftheIslamic Republic? 221
YANN RICHARD
26 The encounter of post-revolutionary thought in
Iran with Hegel, Heidegger, and Popper 242
MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI
27 The myth ofthe White Revolution: Mohammad Reza Shah,
'modernization' and the consolidation of power 261
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28 The Qarani affair and Iranian politics 283
MARK J. GASIOROWSKI
29 Iran under Ahmadinejad: populism and its malcontents 306
ALI ANSARI
30 The reform movement and the debate on modernity and
tradition in contemporary Iran 324
SAID AMIR ARJOMAND
31 Nationalism in twentieth-century Iran and Dr Muhammad
Musaddiq 339
RICHARD COTTAM
VOLUME III ECONOMY & SOCIETY
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32 The growth of towns and villages in Iran, 1900-66 1
JULIAN BHARIER
33 Winners and losers of the Iranian Revolution: a study in income
distribution 13
SOHRAB BEHDAD
34 The social and economic foundations of power in
contemporary Iran 46
JAMES A. BILL
35 Political upheaval and socio-economic continuity:
the case of Iran 65
ANOUSHIRAVAN EHTESHAMI
36 The Iranian power structure and social change 1800-1969:
an overview 76
NIKKI R. KEDDIE
37 Islamization of economics in Iranian universities 93
SOHRAB BEHDAD
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38 Hidden publicexpenditures and the economy in Iran 121
HADI SALEHI RSFAHANI AND FARZAD TAHERIPOUR
39 Political aspects of modern Shi'i legal discussions:
Khumayni and Khu'i on ijtihad and qada* 151
ROBERT GLEAVE
40 Religious modernists and the"woman question" 170
ZIBA MIR-HOSSEINI
41 Cinema as a political instrument 190
HAMID NAFICY
42 The Aridisolatic society: a model of long-term social and
economic development in Iran 208
HOMA KATOUZIAN
43 The sense and essence of secularism 225
ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH
44 What the university expects from the Hawzeh 241
ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH
45 Ideological revolution in ShiMsm 255
SAID AMIR ARJOMAND
46 From motherhood to equal rights advocates: the weakening
ofpatriarchal order 281
AZADEH KIAN-THlfiBAUT
47 Some new trends in Islamic political thought in late
18th and early 19thcentury Persia 302
ANN K. S. LAMBTON
48 A reconsideration ofthe position of the
and the religious institution 326
ANN K. S. LAMBTON
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49 Double demons: cultural impedance in U.S.-Iranian
understanding 1
WILLIAM O. BlillMAN
50 Iranian foreign policy under Khatami: reform and
reintegration 13
ALI ANSARI
51 Iran^s foreign policy under the Islamic Republic, 1979-2000 32
SIIAUL BAKHASH
52 Iran^s strategic predicament 45
SHAHRAM CHUBIN
53 Iran and the US in the shadow of 9/11: Persia and the Persian
question revisited 60
ALI M. ANSARI
54 Civilizational identity and foreign policy: the case of Iran 76
ALI M. ANSARI
55 Cultural transmutations: the dialectics of globalization in
contemporary Iran 95
ALI M. ANSARI
56 Universalist counter-projections: Iranian post-revolutionary
foreign policy and globalization 110
HENNER FURTIG
57 Iran^s foreign policy: a revolution in transition 131
GARY SICK
58 The Iranian revolution: its impact on economic relations
with the United States 149
KHOSROW FATEMI
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59 Myths of Soviet-Iranian relations 165
MURIEL ATKIN
60 Narratives of modernity: perspective of an Oriental despot 179
ABBAS MILANl
61 The last phase of the Iran-Iraq war: from stalemate to ceasefire 190
SMAHRAM CHUBIN
62 Military power and foreign policy goals: the Iran-Iraq war
revisited 202