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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781109403321

Autore

Holliday Shabnam J

Titolo

Defining Iran [[electronic resource] ] : politics of resistance / / by Shabnam J. Holliday

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2011

ISBN

1-315-57626-0

1-317-15355-3

1-317-15354-5

1-283-04762-4

9786613047625

1-4094-0524-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

955.05/4

Soggetti

Nationalism - Iran

Political culture - Iran

Iran History

Iran Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgments; Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Translation; Glossary; Introduction; 1 Discourse of National Identity; 2 Iraniyat and Iranian Identity; 3 Islamiyat and Iranian Identity; 4 Ayatollah Khamene'i's Islamist Discourse of National Identity; 5 Islamist-Iranian Discourse of National Identity: Khatami's State Counter-Discourse; 6 A Contemporary Iranian Identity: Towards a Discourse of Iranian Civic National Identity?; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Defining Iran presents a new and revealing analysis of the way in which Iranian political discourses compete with each other. Deconstructing the intellectual roots and development of Iranian nationalism through the twentieth century, Shabnam Holliday demonstrates how Iran's heritage and historical experience have influenced the construction and reconstruction of Iranian national identity.