Iran facing others : identity boundaries in a historical perspective / ed. by Abbas Amanat and Farzin Vejdani

• HerausgeberIn: Amanat, Abbas, 1947-; Vejdani, Farzin.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1. ed.
• Language: English
• Classification: 73.08 - Regionale Ethnologie
• Physical Description: XIII, 292 S.; 25 cm
• Notes: Literaturangaben; Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references. - Machine generated contents note: -- Part One: Legacy of Cultural Exclusion * Iran and Aniran: The Shaping of a Legend--Dick Davis * Redrawing the Boundaries of 'Ajam in Early Modern Persian Literary History--Sunil Sharma * Part Two: The Internal Frontiers * Iranian History in Transition: Recasting the Symbolic Identity of Babak Khorramdin--Touraj Atabaki * Across the Black Sands and the Red: Travel and the Frontiers of Nineteenth-Century Central Asia--Arash Khazeni * Part Three: Empires and Encounters * Facing a Rude and Barbarous Neighbor: Iranian Perceptions of Russia and the Russians from the Safavids to the Qajars--Rudi Matthee * British Imperialism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in Iran, 1889-1919--H. Lyman Stebbins * Shifting Loyalties in Imperial Borderlands: Safavid Renegades and Ottoman Rebels--Fariba Zarinebaf * Part Four: Self-Fashioning and Othering * The Academic Debate on Iran and Iranian Identity: Challenging Nationalist and Orientalist Narratives--Afshin Matin-Asgari * Some Thoughts on Inter-Societal Linkages between Iran and Iraq--Houchang Chehabi * Part Five: Domestic and Globalized Anxieties * Dolgoruki's 'Memoirs': From Fiction to Master Narrative--Mina Yazdani * Zoroastrians of Iran and Parsis of India: A Dilemma of Identity--Monica Ringer