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Refashioning Iran (St. Antony's)

by Mohamad Tavakoli-targhi

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Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made "homeless" by subsequent nationalist histories and shows how they relate to Indo-Iranian modernity. In doing so, he argues for a radical rewriting of Iranian history with profound implications for Islamic debates on gender.

Synopsis:

Offers a corrective to works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. The text argues for a radical re-writing of Iranian history.

About the Author

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi is Associate Professor of Historiography and Middle Eastern History at Illinois State University.

Table of Contents

Modernity, Hereotopia, and Homeless Texts * Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia * Persianate Europology * Imagining European Women * Contested Memories * Crafting National Identity * Patriotic and Matriotic Nationalism

Modernity, Hereotopia, and Homeless Texts * Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia * Persianate Europology * Imagining European Women * Contested Memories * Crafting National Identity * Patriotic and Matriotic Nationalism


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ISBN:
9780333949221
Subtitle:
Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Historiography
Author:
Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad
Author:
Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Location:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Subject:
Middle East - Iran
Subject:
Gender Studies
Subject:
Historiography
Subject:
Nationalism
Subject:
Iran
Subject:
Orientalism
Subject:
Middle East
Subject:
Nationalism -- Iran.
Subject:
Iran Historiography.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series:
St. Antony's
Series Volume:
0-1854
Publication Date:
December 2001
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
236
Dimensions:
8.82x5.68x.79 in. 1.01 lbs.

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