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Iran Facing Others Please Respect Intellectual Property Rights Iran Facing Others Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective A. Amanat; F. Vejdani ISBN: 9781137013408 DOI: 10.1057/9781137013408 Palgrave Macmillan Please respect intellectual property rights This material is copyright and its use is restricted by our standard site license terms and conditions (see palgraveconnect.com/pc/connect/info/terms_conditions.html). If you plan to copy, distribute or share in any format, including, for the avoidance of doubt, posting on websites, you need the express prior permission of Palgrave Macmillan. To request permission please contact [email protected]. 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All rights reserved. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE® and MACMILLAN® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978– 0– 230– 10253– 8 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: January 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. 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Lyman Stebbins 10.1057/9781137013408 - Iran Facing Others, Edited by Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani ppal-amanat-book.indbal-amanat-book.indb v 112/19/112/19/11 11:33:33 PPMM vi Contents III Nationalism and the Appropriation of the Past 8 The Academic Debate on Iranian Identity: Nation and Empire Entangled 173 Afshin Matin- asgari 9 Iran and Iraq: Intersocietal Linkages and Secular Nationalisms 193 H. E. Chehabi IV Self- Fashioning and Internal Othering 10 Identity among the Jews of Iran 221 Daniel Tsadik 11 The Confessions of Dolgoruki: The Crisis of Identity and the Creation of a Master Narrative 245 Mina Yazdani 12 Iranian Nationalism and Zoroastrian Identity: Between Cyrus and Zoroaster 267 Monica M. Ringer Contributors 279 Index 283 Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Hsuan Chuang University - PalgraveConnect - 2014-02-02 - PalgraveConnect - licensed to Hsuan Chuang University www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9781137013408 - Iran Facing Others, Edited by Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani ppal-amanat-book.indbal-amanat-book.indb vivi 112/19/112/19/11 11:33:33 PPMM To John D. Gurney Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Hsuan Chuang University - PalgraveConnect - 2014-02-02 - PalgraveConnect - licensed to Hsuan Chuang University www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9781137013408 - Iran Facing Others, Edited by Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani ppal-amanat-book.indbal-amanat-book.indb viivii 112/19/112/19/11 11:33:33 PPMM Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Hsuan Chuang University - PalgraveConnect - 2014-02-02 - PalgraveConnect - licensed to Hsuan Chuang University www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10.1057/9781137013408 - Iran Facing Others, Edited by Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani ppal-amanat-book.indbal-amanat-book.indb viiiviii 112/19/112/19/11 11:33:33 PPMM Preface The study of Iranian identity poses considerable challenges ranging from the complex legacy of the premodern past to the diversity of ethnic and religious populations, from the history of encounters with multiple imperial powers to the long shadow cast by nationalist ideologies. This present volume attempts to reap- praise the question of Iranian identity by engaging with more recent scholar- ship, including theories of nationalism, border studies, and research on identity formation. Abbas Amanat’s introduction, “Iranian Identity Boundaries: An Interpretive Overview,” lays out the major issues connected with the study of Iranian identity and sets the stage for subsequent papers in the volume. Avoiding a static concep- tion of Iran, he historicizes the multiple loci of Iranian identity, rooted in language, literature, territory, imperial traditions, myth, history, and religion. Part I, “The Legacy of Cultural Exclusion and Contested Memories,” examines notions of Iran as a bound geographical and cultural space in literature and liter- ary histories that often excluded regions and peoples from its self- definition. The notion of Iran and 'Ajam as geographical and imperial markers was by no means solely the product of modernity and nationalism. Nor were they, as some Iranian nationalists have argued, an eternal, continuous, and static category. A nuanced examination of Persian mytho- histories such as the Shahnameh, literary biogra- phies, and early literary histories demonstrate the unstable, shifting, and dynamic meanings attributed to Iran, particularly over the period of the tenth to the twen- tieth centuries. No discussion of Iranian identity can ignore the centrality and importance of Abu al- Qasem Ferdowsi’s epic poem Shahnameh (The Book of Kings). Arguably more than any other Persian text, it was the Shahnameh, according to Dick Davis in “Iran and Aniran: The Shaping of a Legend,” that “contributed much toward Iran’s perception of the nature of its own continuing reality in the past thousand years.” Although it would be tempting to see the text as conveying a singular and - 2014-02-02 - PalgraveConnect - licensed to Hsuan Chuang University www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright unified notion of Iran, Davis persuasively argues for a more nuanced reading of the poem, one that pays greater attention to the fundamentally shifting conception of Iran as a geographical boundary, the complex attitude toward presumed Others such as Turanians, Indians, Chinese, and Arabs, and the mixed genealogies of the tale’s quintessentially “Iranian” figures. While the Shahnameh as a poeticized mytho- historical narrative of Iranians embodied an important register of narratives and memories, tazkerehs, or biograph- ical dictionaries, and later literary histories of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century were significant sites for the articulation of early modern and 10.1057/9781137013408 - Iran
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