Defining Iran : politics of resistance /

This book examines what it means to be Iranian and how Iranian national identity is constructed; how Islam, Iran's pre-Islamic culture, and relations with the West are dealt with and determining what is authentic and legitimate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holliday, Shabnam J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Discourse of national identity
  • Īrānīyat and Iranian identity
  • Islāmīyat and Iranian identity
  • Ayatollah Khamene'i's Islamist discourse of national identity
  • Islamist-Iranian discourse of national identity : Khatami's state counter-discourse
  • A contemporary Iranian identity : towards a discourse of Iranian civic national identity?