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Iran's Quiet Revolution - The Downfall of the Pahlavi State (Paperback)
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Iran's Quiet Revolution - The Downfall of the Pahlavi State (Paperback)
Series: The Global Middle East
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Offering a new perspective on Iran's politics and culture in the
1960s and 1970s, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the prevailing view of
pre-Revolution Iran, documenting how the cultural elites of the
Pahlavi State promoted a series of striking 'Gharbzadegi' or
'Westoxification' discourses. Intended as ideological alternatives
to modern and Western-inspired cultural attitudes, these influenced
Persian identity politics, and projected Iranian modernity as a
'mistaken modernity' despite the regime's own ferocious
modernisation programme. Focusing on the cultural transformations
which defined the period, Mirsepassi sheds new light on the Pahlavi
State as an ideological gambler, inadvertently empowering its
fundamentalist enemies and spreading a 'quiet revolution' through
secular and religious civil society. Proposing a new theoretical
framework for understanding the anti-modern discourses of Ahmad
Fardid, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, and Ali Shari'ati, Iran's Quiet
Revolution is a radical re-interpretation of twentieth century
Iranian political history which makes sense of these events within
the creative, yet tragic Iranian nation-making experience.
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