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Civil Society
Contemporary Iranian Identity
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Iran's Historical Experience
Iran's pre-Islamic Culture
Iran's pre-Islamic Heritage
Iran's pre-Islamic Past
Iran's Relationship
iranian
Iranian Cosmopolitanism
Iranian Identity
Iranian Islamic Culture
Iranian Islamic Republic
Iranian National Identity
Iranian Political Culture
Iran’s Historical Experience
Iran’s pre-Islamic Culture
Iran’s pre-Islamic Heritage
Iran’s pre-Islamic Past
Iran’s Relationship
Islamic Republic
Islamic Revolution
Islamist Discourse
Islamist Iranian Discourse
Khatami's Islamist Iranian Discourse
Khatami's Presidency
Khatami’s Islamist Iranian Discourse
Khatami’s Presidency
Language_English
Mirza Agha Khan Kermani
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National Identity
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Pahlavi Regime
Persian Language
Positive Nationalism
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Reza Shah
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Product details
- ISBN 9781409405238
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Defining Iran presents a new and revealing analysis of the way in which Iranian political discourses compete with each other by examining them within the framework of national identity construction. By deconstructing the intellectual roots and development of Iranian national identity, Shabnam Holliday advocates the need to study Iran's heritage and historical experience to understand key shifts and processes in contemporary Iranian politics. Holliday convincingly argues that competing discourses of national identity advocated by political figures from Musaddiq to the current administration demonstrate a politics of resistance to both internal and external forces. With a particular emphasis on Khatami’s presidency, this study compares the meanings attached by significant members of the Iranian political elite to concepts including Iran’s pre-Islamic heritage, Islamic heritage, civilization, 'democracy' and the 'West'. Furthermore, discourses of Iranian national identity exist not in isolation but rather as part of a continuous process construction and reconstruction in Iran's journey of political development; a process manifested so vividly in the revolution of 1979 and the fallout from the 2009 presidential election. Defining Iran simultaneously furthers our understanding of the conceptualization of national identity both generally and specifically in the case of Iran and political dynamics which shape contemporary Iran.
Shabnam J. Holliday is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Plymouth, UK.
