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Author: R. Elling
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-02-18
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1137047801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the premise that nationalism is a dominant factor in Iranian identity politics despite the significant changes brought about by the Islamic Revolution, this cross-disciplinary work investigates the languages of nationalism in contemporary Iran through the prism of the minority issue.
Author: Eliz Sanasarian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-04-13
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 113942985X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEliz Sanasarian's book explores the political and ideological relationship between non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran and the state during the formative years of the Islamic Republic to the present day. Her analysis is based on a detailed examination of the history and experiences of the Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Jews, Zoroastrians, Bahais and Iranian Christians, and describes how these communities have responded to state policies regarding minorities. Many of her findings are constructed out of personal interviews with members of these communities. While the book is essentially an empirical study, it also highlights more general questions associated with exclusion and marginalization and the role of the state in defining these boundaries. This is an important and original book which will make a significant contribution to the literature on minorities and to the workings of the Islamic Republic.
Author: Robin B. Wright
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1601270844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive but concise overview of Iran's politics, economy, military, foreign policy, and nuclear program. The volume chronicles U.S.-Iran relations under six American presidents and probes five options for dealing with Iran. Organized thematically, this book provides top-level briefings by 50 top experts on Iran (both Iranian and Western authors) and is a practical and accessible "go-to" resource for practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students, as well as a fascinating wealth of information for anyone interested in understanding Iran's pivotal role in world politics.
Author: Ailreza Asgharzadeh
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-06-11
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0230604889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interrogates the racist construction of Aria and Aryanism in an Iranian context, arguing that these concepts gave the Indo-European speaking Persian ethnic group an advantage over Iran's non-Persian nationalities and communities.
Author: David N. Yaghoubian
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0815652720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran investigates the ways in which Armenian minorities in Iran encountered Iranian nationalism and participated in its development over the course of the twentieth century. Based primarily on oral interviews, archival documents, memoirs, memorabilia, and photographs, the book examines the lives of a group of Armenian Iranians—a truck driver, an army officer, a parliamentary representative, a civil servant, and a scout leader—and explores the personal conflicts and paradoxes attendant upon their layered allegiances and compound identities. In documenting individual experiences in Iranian industry, military, government, education, and community organizations, the five social biographies detail the various roles of elites and nonelites in the development of Iranian nationalism and reveal the multiple forces that shape the processes of identity formation. Yaghoubian combines these portraits with a theoretical grounding to answer recurring pivotal questions about how nationalism evolves, why it is appealing, what broad forces and daily activities shape and sustain it, and the role of ethnicity in its development.
Author: Daniel Tsadik
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007-11-09
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 0804779481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, Between Foreigners and Shi'is examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran. This book, which focuses on Nasir al-Din Shah's reign (1848-1896), is the first comprehensive scholarly attempt to weave all these threads into a single tapestry. This case study of the Jewish minority illuminates broader processes pertaining to other religious minorities and Iranian society in general, and the interaction among intervening foreigners, the Shi'i majority, and local Jews helps us understand Iranian dilemmas that have persisted well beyond the second half of the nineteenth century.
Author: Anh Nga Longva
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-11-11
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9004207422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.
Author: James Barry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1108429041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Iran's Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.
Author: A. Saleh
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781137310866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a dominated "Persian hegemony," the systematic neglect of ethnic groups by both the Islamic Republic and its predecessor regime has resulted in the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran.
Author: S. Behnaz Hosseini
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-02-07
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9811526354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how socio-political surroundings have affected the evolution of Yārsāni religious thought and why the Yārsāni religious belief, despite its fundamental disagreement with Islamic tenets, has been affiliated with Islam. It also considers the historical context and socio-religious milieu in which the Yārsāni belief appropriates religious forces to survive, how Yārsānis experience their religion in Islamic society, and what differences are significant in their lived experiences. The author explores how the experience of worship influences real life for the Yārsānis from the perspectives of sociology, behaviorism, content analysis, cultural studies and ethnography in Iran and diaspora with focus on Sweden. Yārsāni followers became known as those who “don’t tell secrets,” primarily because they were not allowed to promote and advertise their religion in public, but recently have started to reveal their religion, especially in social media. This book discovers the transformation of this religion, and in particular in which context an individual can change the content of religion, and bring about new ideas regarding religion and belief.
