Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary - Histor

This book analyzes the role of intellectuals as the prime mediators between the forces of tradition and modernity in twentieth century and twenty-first century Iran.

List of contents

Part I: Iranian Intellectuals,Nationalism and State: from Qajar to Early Pahlavi
Chapter 1: Amir Kabir: A Reformist and Pioneer of Modernization in the Traditional State
Chapter 2: Crafitng Iranian National Imaginary:The Interwar Period (1918-1935)
Chapter 3: British Whiggism and the Iranian Enlightenment in the 19^th Century
Partt II: Iranian Intellectuals:Between Traditional Values and Modern State
Chapter 4: Third-Worldist Iranian intellectuals: Shariati and Ale-Ahmad
Chapter 5: Sadeq Hedayat: Iranian Fiction and the Experience of Modernity
Chapter 6: Rethinking the Legacy of Intellectual-Statesmen in Iran
Part III: Women Intellectuals in Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Iran
Chapter 7: Women's rights in Iran's experiment with modernity
Chapter 8: "And, here I am," Forugh Farrokhzad and Modernity
Chapter 9: Simin Daneshvar: The Forging of an Intellectual
Part IV: Iranian Left: From Marxist Intellectualism to Revolutionary Romanticism
Chapter 10: The perplexity of the Iranian Marxist Intellectuals in this 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 11: Intellectual Statesmen and the Making of Iran's Illiberal Nation-State(1921-1926)

About the author

Ramin Jahanbegloo is executive director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and vice-dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University.

Product details

• Authors: Ramin Jahanbegloo
• Assisted by: Ramin Jahanbegloo (Editor), Jahanbegloo Ramin (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781793600066
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-006-6
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Iran, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General