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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Iranian Studies |
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Iranian Studies
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| Contents |
Iran Politics, history andliterature; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Iran's long history and short-term society; Part I History and politics; 1 Legitimacy and succession in Iranianhistory; 2 The short-term society: A comparative study in the problems of long-term 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 |
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Part II Persian literature7 Classical Persian literature: form and substance; 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 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; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make modernisation possible, and the second, to overthrow the absolute and arbitrary state, though this time mainly under the banner of religion and Marxism-Leninism and anti-Westernism. Neither of the |
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Print version record |
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Persian literature -- History and criticism
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Civilization
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Persian literature
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Iran -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067884
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Iran -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067909
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Iran -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067895
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Iran
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136172915 |
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1136172912 |
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