Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Iran

Essays in Honour of Ervand Abrahamian

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4425-2 (ISBN)

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Illuminates hitherto-understudied aspects of Iran’s socio-political and socio-cultural history.

This collection of original chapters in honour of the distinguished historian Ervand Abrahamian addresses hitherto understudied topics in Iranian political, social, and cultural history from the early twentieth century to the present. The sixteen chapters fall into five categories – all areas of study to which Ervand Abrahamian made a significant contribution – which proceed from the global to the local: Part I looks at Iran’s place in international politics in the early twentieth century; Part II considers key transitional periods in Iranian history; Part III focuses on national politics; Part IV examines intellectual history embedded in political change; and Part V explores social history, with an emphasis on cities. The book also includes an original interview with Ervand Abrahamian and a complete bibliography of Ervand Abrahamian’s works.

H. E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History Emeritus at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. He is the author of Onomastic Reform: Family Names and State Building in Iran (2020), Culture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (2018), Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 Years (2006) and Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990).

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Preface

In Conversation with Ervand Abrahamian
Stephanie Cronin
A Bibliography of Ervand Abrahamian
H. E. Chehabi

Part I. Iran in the World
1. The 1907 Anglo-Russian Agreement: A Postscript
Mangol Bayat
2. Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 'Standard of Civilisation’
H. E. Chehabi
3. The Demise of the Anglo-Iranian Agreement of 1919
Nahid Mozaffari

Part II. Transitions
4. From Sardar Sepah to Reza Shah: The Illegality of Pahlavi Reign
Maziar Behrooz
5. 'Abadan in Fire and Blood': The Role of the Crowd in the History of the Nationalisation of the Iranian Oil Industry
Touraj Atabaki
6. Did Progressive Muslims Pave the Way for the Hegemony of "Khomeinism"? Public Religion and the 1979 Revolution
Mojtaba Mahdavi
7. Second Supreme Swapping: Prospects for Leadership Change in Iran
Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Part III. Politics
8. The Tudeh Party of Iran's Attitude towards Mohammad Mosaddeq
Siavush Ranjbar Daemi
9. The Shadow of Mosaddeq: History, Memory and the Construction of a Myth
Ali Ansari
10. Peykār Organization: History, Contexts, Transformations, Challenges
Peyman Vahabzadeh

Part IV: Culture and Society
11. Dialogue in Qānun: Theatrical Reporting as a Political Device
Sheida Dayani
12. 'We became plucked': Reza Shah’s Education Policy and the Armenian Community of Iran
Houri Berberian
13. Fātemeh Sayyāh: Forgotten Scholar, Public Intellectual and Women’s Rights Advocate
Afshin Matin-Asgari

Part V. Life in the City
14. The Poor as a Problem of Governance: Mashhad Poor House in 1939
Mohammad Maljoo
15. Leisure Architecture and the Aesthetics of the Pahlavi 'Modern Middle Class'
Talinn Grigor
16. The Reinvention of Mahallehs in Post-revolutionary Tehran: Spatial Reconfiguration and Political Control
Abbas Varij Kazemi and Arang Keshavarzian

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Zusatzinfo	19 b&w images
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-3995-4425-X / 139954425X
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-4425-2 / 9781399544252
Zustand	Neuware