| Description |
1 online resource (229 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index. |
| Summary |
''This book is the first collection of its kind. It brings together articles by historians, sociologists and political scientists as well as contributions by intellectuals and essayists currently engaged in the intellectual scene in Iran, thus outlining not only a range of intellectual concerns and trends in the tumultuous 20th century but also presenting authentic insights from a number of present-day participants. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Note on Transliteration vii; Acknowledgments ix; Introduction 1; Part I. Intellectual Discourse in Pahlavi Iran; 1. The Ambivalent Modernity of Iranian Intellectuals 11; 2. Khalil Maleki: The Odd Intellectual Out 24; 3. Ahmad Shamlu and the Contingency of Our Future 53; 4. The Discourse of "Authentic Culture" in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s 91; Part II. Intellectual Expressions and Dynamics in Postrevolutionary Iran; 5. Crossing the Desert: Iranian Intellectuals after the Islamic Revolution 111; 6. Religious Intellectuals and Political Action in the Reform Movement 136. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Iran -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Iran. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nabavi, Negin, 1965-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Intellectual trends in twentieth-century Iran. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2003 081302630X (DLC) 2003040244 (OCoLC)51511349 |
| ISBN |
081303115X (electronic book) |
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9780813031156 (electronic book) |
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