Politics of modern Iran/ Ansari, Ali M
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VOLUME I HISTORY & HISTORIOGRAPHY Acknowledgements 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 Xlll
PART 2 CONTENTS 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 Acknowledgements vii 15 Britain and the overthrow of the Mosaddeq government l WM. ROGER LOUIS Vi CONTENTS 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 ALI M. ANSARI Vll CONTENTS 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 Acknowledgements vii 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 Vlll CONTENTS 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 IX CONTENTS VOLUME IV INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Ackno vt lec/gcments vii 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 CONTENTS 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