Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgements xiii
Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters xv
Introduction 1(1)

Ali M. Ansari

PART 1 Historiography 17(84)

1 The historians of the constitutional movement and the making of the Iranian populist tradition 19(20)

M. Reza Afshari

2 `Persia' in the Western imagination 39(13)

Ali M. Ansari

3 Problems in Iranian historiography 52(15)

Fereydoun Adamiyat

4 The study of history in post-revolutionary Iran: nostalgia, illusion, or historical awareness? 67(15)

Abbas Amanat

5 History used and abused 82(19)

Ervand Abrahamian

PART 2 History 101(116)

6 Kasravi: the integrative nationalist of Iran 103(28)

Ervand Abrahamian

7 Oriental despotism: the case of Qajar Iran 131(30)

Ervand Abrahamian

8 Mirza Aqa Khan Kirmani: a nineteenth century Persian nationalist 161(27)

Mangol Bayat Philipp

9 Staging the emperor's new clothes: dress codes and nation-building under Reza Shah 188(22)

Houchang E. Chehabi

10 Iranian nationalism and Reza Shah 210(11)

M. Reza Ghods

11 Government and society in Iran, 1926--34 221(12)

M. Reza Ghods

12 The short-term society: a study in the problems of long-term political and economic development in Iran 233(21)

Homa Katouzian

13 Reza Shah's court minister: Teymourtash 254(21)

Miron Rezun

14 Imperial power and dictatorship: Britain and the rise of Reza Shah, 1921--1926 275

Michael P. Zirinsky
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15 Britain and the overthrow of the Mosaddeq government 1(51)

Wm. Roger Louis

16 The 1953 coup in Iran 52(27)

Ervand Abrahamian

17 The crowd in the Iranian Revolution 79(25)

Ervand Abrahamian

18 The paranoid style in Iranian politics 104(17)

Ervand Abrahamian

19 The three cultures 121(15)

Abdolkarim Soroush

20 What is (Iranian) national character? A sociolinguistic approach 136(17)

William O. Beeman

21 The plasticity of informal politics: the case of Iran 153(20)

James A. Bill

22 The politics of student alienation: the case of Iran 173(14)

James A. Bill

23 Popularity of Islamic and Persian names in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution 187(8)

Nader Habibi

24 Arbitrary rule: a comparative theory of state, politics and society in Iran 195(26)

Homa Katouzian

25 Ayatollah Kashani: precursor of the Islamic Republic? 221(21)

Yann Richard

26 The encounter of post-revolutionary thought in Iran with Hegel, Heidegger, and Popper 242(19)

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

27 The myth of the White Revolution: Mohammad Reza Shah, `modernization' and the consolidation of power 261(22)

Ali M. Ansari

28 The Qarani affair and Iranian politics 283(23)

Mark J. Gasiorowski

29 Iran under Ahmadinejad: populism and its malcontents 306(18)

Ali Ansari

30 The reform movement and the debate on modernity and tradition in contemporary Iran 324(15)

Said Amir Arjomand

31 Nationalism in twentieth-century Iran and Dr Muhammad Musaddiq 339

Richard Cottam
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32 The growth of towns and villages in Iran, 1900--66 1(12)

Julian Bharier

33 Winners and losers of the Iranian Revolution: a study in income distribution 13(33)

Sohrab Behdad

34 The social and economic foundations of power in contemporary Iran 46(19)

James A. Bill

35 Political upheaval and socio-economic continuity: the case of Iran 65(11)

Anoushiravan Ehteshami

36 The Iranian power structure and social change 1800--1969: an overview 76(17)

Nikki R. Keddie

37 Islamization of economics in Iranian universities 93(28)

Sohrab Behdad

38 Hidden public expenditures and the economy in Iran 121(30)

Hadi Salehi Esfahani

Farzad Taheripour

39 Political aspects of modern Shi'i legal discussions: Khumayni and Khu'i on ijtihad and qada' 151(19)

Robert Gleave

40 Religious modernists and the "woman question" 170(20)

Ziba Mir-Hosseini

41 Cinema as a political instrument 190(18)

Hamid Naficy

42 The Aridisolatic society: a model of long-term social and economic development in Iran 208(17)

Homa Katouzian

43 The sense and essence of secularism 225(16)

Abdolkarim Soroush

44 What the university expects from the Hawzeh 241(14)

Abdolkarim Soroush

45 Ideological revolution in Shi'ism 255(26)

Said Amir Arjomand

46 From motherhood to equal rights advocates: the weakening of patriarchal order 281(21)

Azadeh Kian-Thiebaut

47 Some new trends in Islamic political thought in late 18th and early 19th century Persia 302(24)

Ann K. S. Lambton

48 A reconsideration of the position of the marja'al-taqlid and the religious institution 326

Ann K. S. Lambton
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49 Double demons: cultural impedance in U.S.-Iranian understanding 1(12)

William O. Beeman

50 Iranian foreign policy under Khatami: reform and reintegration 13(19)

Ali Ansari

51 Iran's foreign policy under the Islamic Republic, 1979--2000 32(13)

Shaul Bakhash

52 Iran's strategic predicament 45(15)

Shahram Chubin

53 Iran and the US in the shadow of 9/11: Persia and the Persian question revisited 60(16)

Ali M. Ansari

54 Civilizational identity and foreign policy: the case of Iran 76(19)

Ali M. Ansari

55 Cultural transmutations: the dialectics of globalization in contemporary Iran 95(15)

Ali M. Ansari

56 Universalist counter-projections: Iranian post-revolutionary foreign policy and globalization 110(21)

Henner Furtig

57 Iran's foreign policy: a revolution in transition 131(18)

Gary Sick

58 The Iranian revolution: its impact on economic relations with the United States 149(16)

Khosrow Fatemi

59 Myths of Soviet-Iranian relations 165(14)

Muriel Atkin

60 Narratives of modernity: perspective of an Oriental despot 179(11)

Abbas Milani

61 The last phase of the Iran-Iraq war: from stalemate to ceasefire 190(12)

Shahram Chubin

62 Military power and foreign policy goals: the Iran-Iraq war revisited 202(15)

Efraim Karsh
Index 217