Iran's Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State
Ali Mirsepassi
Offering a new perspective on Iran’s politics and culture in the 1960s and 1970s, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the prevailing view of pre-revolutionary Iran, documenting how the cultural elites of the Pahlavi state promoted a series of striking gharbzadegi or “Westoxif i cation” discourses. Intended as ideological alternatives to modern and Western-inspired cultural attitudes, these inf l uenced Persian identity politics and projected Iranian modernity as a “mistaken modernity,” despite the regime’s own ferocious modernization programme.
Focusing on the cultural transformations that def i ned the period, Mirsepassi sheds new light on the Pahlavi state as an ideological gambler, inadvertently empowering its fundamentalist enemies and spreading a “Quiet Revolution” through secular and religious civil society.
Proposing a new theoretical framework for understanding the anti-modern discourses of Ahmad Fardid, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, and Ali Shari’ati, Iran’s Quiet Revolution is a radical reinterpretation of twentieth-century Iranian political history that makes sense of these events within the creative, yet tragic, Iranian nation-making experience.
Focusing on the cultural transformations that def i ned the period, Mirsepassi sheds new light on the Pahlavi state as an ideological gambler, inadvertently empowering its fundamentalist enemies and spreading a “Quiet Revolution” through secular and religious civil society.
Proposing a new theoretical framework for understanding the anti-modern discourses of Ahmad Fardid, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, and Ali Shari’ati, Iran’s Quiet Revolution is a radical reinterpretation of twentieth-century Iranian political history that makes sense of these events within the creative, yet tragic, Iranian nation-making experience.
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Год:
2019
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Язык:
english
ISBN 10:
1108485898
ISBN 13:
9781108485890
Серия:
The Global Middle East 9
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PDF, 2.18 MB
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english, 2019