Perceptions Of Iran : History , Myths And nationalism From Medieval Persia To The Islamic Republic
\ Edited By Ali M. Ansari
London , New York
: I. B. Tauris
, 2014
Xi, 239 p.
: ill.
Index
Myth, history and narrative displacement in Iranian historiography / Ali M. Ansari --History, 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