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The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism - Race and the Politics of Dislocation (Hardcover)
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The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism - Race and the Politics of Dislocation (Hardcover)
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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and
Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded
modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a
difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an
appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in
which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is
reinterpreted as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable
others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to
Europe and the Aryan race, this ideology remains the most
politically potent form of identity in Iran. Akhundzadeh and
Kermani's nationalist reading of Iranian history has been drilled
into the minds of Iranians since its adoption by the Pahlavi state
in the early twentieth century. Spread through mass schooling,
historical narratives, and official statements of support, their
ideological perspective has come to define Iranian culture and
domestic and foreign policy. Zia-Ebrahimi follows the development
of dislocative nationalism through a range of cultural and
historical materials, and he captures its incorporation of European
ideas about Iranian history, the Aryan race, and a primordial
nation. His work emphasizes the agency of Iranian intellectuals in
translating European ideas for Iranian audiences, impressing
Western conceptions of race onto Iranian identity.
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