: history, myths and nationalism from medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic
\ / edited by Ali M. Ansari
London
: I.B. Tauris
, 2014
xi, 239p.
: ill
; 24 cm.
International library of Iranian studies
; vol 37
English
Includes bibliographical references (p.211-232) and index
Myth, history and narrative displacement in Iranian historiography / Ali M. Ansari -- History, national identity and myths in Iranian contemporary political thought : Mirza Fathali Akhundzadeh (1812-78), Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani (1853-96) and Hassan Taqizadeh (1878-1970) / Pejman Abdolmohammadi -- Ancient Iran in the imagination of the medieval West / Robert Bartlett -- History and chronology in early modern Iran : the Safavid Empire in comparative perspective / Stephen P. Blake -- Historiography in late antique Iran / Touraj Daryaee -- Reverse Orientalism : Iranian reactions to the West / Farhang Jahanpour -- Herodotus' Cyrus and political freedom / Lynette Mitchell -- Iran and the Aryan myth / David Motadel -- History and its meaning in the Islamic Republic of Iran : the case of the Mongol invasion(s) and rule / Anja Pistor-Hatam -- Safavid Persia through Italian eyes : from reign of freedom to land of oppression / Elisa Sabadini -- History and Iranian drama : the case of Bahram Beyzaie / Saeed Talajooy.
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National characteristics, Iranian
Iranian literature -- History and criticism
Iran -- Civilization
DSR65
.
P4
2014
Ansari, Ali M., editor
Iran
University of Tehran. Central library and documentration center