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The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran (Hardcover, New)
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The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
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This sophisticated and challenging book by the distinguished
historian Ali M. Ansari explores the idea of nationalism in the
creation of modern Iran. It does so by considering the broader
developments in national ideologies that took place following the
emergence of the European Enlightenment and showing how these ideas
were adopted by a non-European state. Ansari charts a course
through twentieth-century Iran, analyzing the growth of
nationalistic ideas and their impact on the state and demonstrating
the connections between historiographical and political
developments. In so doing, he shows how Iran's different regimes
manipulated ideologies of nationalism and collective historical
memory to suit their own ends. Firmly relocating Reza Shah within
the context of the Constitutional Revolution, Ansari argues that
Reza Pahlavi's identification with a monarchy by Divine Right bore
a greater resemblance to, and facilitated, the religious
nationalism that catapulted Ayatollah Khomeini to power on the back
of a populist and highly personalized mythology. Drawing on
hitherto untapped sources, the book concludes that it was the
revolutionary developments and changes that occurred during the
first half of the twentieth century that paved the way for later
radicalization. As the first book-length study of Iranian
nationalism in nearly five decades, it will find an eager
readership among scholars of the Middle East and those students
more generally interested in questions of nationalism and ideology.
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