Iran As Imagined Nation

A critical study of how Iranian nationalism, itself largely influenced by Orientalist scholarship first undertaken by the European Orientalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has shaped modern conceptions of Iran and Iranian identity, as well as narratives of Iranian history, leading to the adoption of a broad nationalist construction of identity to suit Iranian political and ideological circumstances. This book argues that such a broad-brushed approach and the term "Iranian" could not have applied to the large multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural populations in the vast territory of Iran over so many distinct historical periods. 9781463202279 146320227X 327 History NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kcTmmgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Mostafa Vaziri
• • Publisher: Gorgias Press
• • Publication Date: Jul 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 348 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 146320227X
• • ISBN-13: 9781463202279