Iran Facing Others

1. Introduction
Abbas Amanat

Part I. The Legacy of Cultural Exclusion and Contested Memories

2. Iran and Aniran
Dick Davis

3. Redrawing the Boundaries of ’Ajam in Early Modern Persian Literary Histories
Sunil Sharma

4. Iranian History in Transition
Touraj Atabaki

Part II. Empires and Encounters

5. Rebels and Renegades on Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands
Fariba Zarinebaf

6. Facing a Rude and Barbarous Neighbor
Rudi Matthee

7. Through the Persian Eye
Abbas Amanat

8. British Imperialism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in Iran, 1890–1919
H. Lyman Stebbins

Part III. Nationalism and the Appropriation of the Past

9. The Academic Debate on Iranian Identity
Afshin Matin-asgari

10. Iran and Iraq
H. E. Chehabi

Part IV. Self-Fashioning and Internal Othering

11. Identity among the Jews of Iran
Abbas Amanat, Farzin Vejdani

12. The Confessions of Dolgoruki
Mina Yazdani

13. Iranian Nationalism and Zoroastrian Identity
Monica M. Ringer

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Middle Eastern Politics, Political Science, Political History