Homa Katouzian

Iran (eBook, ePUB)

A Beginner's Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

World-renowned Iranian expert Homa Katouzian presents the first comprehensive introduction to one of the world's most controversial and misunderstood countries

Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has been locked in conflict with the United States and Europe. Personified in the West by a series of bogeymen from Ayatollah Khomeini to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, this villainous mask obscures a far more complex identity, forged by a vibrant and chaotic history.

Revealing the country's true face, acclaimed expert Homa Katouzian delves deep into Iran's past, exploring how an ancient civilization at a crossroads of diverse dynasties and religions grew to become an ethnically, linguistically, and culturally rich nation. Centuries of arbitrary rule and revolution from the first Persian empires to the Green Movement are brought to life as Katouzian offers fresh insight into this fascinating country. Asking where its future may lie postArab Spring, this is the perfect primer for understanding a country characterized by constant flux and controversy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780742731
• Artikelnr.: 39493783

Autorenporträt

Dr Homa Katouzian is the editor of Iranian Studies and Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford University. He is author of numerous books on Iranian Literature, History and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Iran's Long History and Short-Term Society Part 1: History
and Politics 1. Legitimacy and Succession in Iranian history 2. The
Short-Term Society: A Comparative Study in the Long-Term Problems of
Political and Economic Development in Iran 3. The Revolution for Law: A
Chronographic Analysis of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran 4. Seyyed
Hasan Taqizadeh: Three Lives in a Lifetime 5. Khalil Maleki: The Odd
Intellectual Out 6. The Iranian Revolution at 30: The Dialectic of State
and Society Part II: Persian literature 7. Form and Substance in Classical
Persian Literature 8. Sa'di's Love Lyrics 9. Neo-classical Persian
Literature: Bazgasht-e Adabi in the Nineteenth Century 10. Modern Persian
Literature: From the Constitutional Revolution to the Revolution of
February 1979. 11. Poet-Laureate Bahar in the Constitutional Era 12. Iraj,
the Poet of Love and Humour 13. Private Parts and Public Discourses in
Modern Iran 14. Jamalzadeh's Fiction 15. Of the Sins of Forugh Farrokhzad