Intellectual Trends in Twentieth-Century Iran [electronic resource] : A Critical Survey

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nabavi, Negin.

Contributor:

Nabavi, Negin, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--Intellectual life--20th century.

Iran--Intellectual life.

Iran.

Local Subjects:

Iran--Intellectual life--20th century.

Iran--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : UPF, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

''This book is the first collection of its kind. It brings together articles by historians, sociologists and political scientists as well as contributions by intellectuals and essayists currently engaged in the intellectual scene in Iran, thus outlining not only a range of intellectual concerns and trends in the tumultuous 20th century but also presenting authentic insights from a number of present-day participants.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Note on Transliteration vii; Acknowledgments ix; Introduction 1; Part I. Intellectual Discourse in Pahlavi Iran; 1. The Ambivalent Modernity of Iranian Intellectuals 11; 2. Khalil Maleki: The Odd Intellectual Out 24; 3. Ahmad Shamlu and the Contingency of Our Future 53; 4. The Discourse of "Authentic Culture" in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s 91; Part II. Intellectual Expressions and Dynamics in Postrevolutionary Iran; 5. Crossing the Desert: Iranian Intellectuals after the Islamic Revolution 111; 6. Religious Intellectuals and Political Action in the Reform Movement 136

7. Improvising in Public: Transgressive Politics of the Reformist Press in Postrevolutionary Iran 1478. Sacral Defense of Secularism: Dissident Political Theology in Iran 180; 9. Women's Rights and Clerical Discourses:The Legacy of Allameh Tabataba i 193; Select Bibliography 219; Contributors 223; Index 225

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8130-3115-X

OCLC:

476046216