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"For anyone interested in understanding the complexities of contemporary Iranian politics, this book should be mandatory reading." -- Afsaneh Najmabadi, Middle East Journal
"Precisely how Iranians have fashioned, and are fashioning, their daily life -- or, as Adelkhah puts it, 'reinventing their modern life' -- is the tantalizing focus of this very interesting... book about Iranian culture and politics." -- Farideh Farhi, International Journal of Middle East Studies
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Fariba Adelkhah is a senior researcher at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI/Sciences-po) in Paris.
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Not your father's Iran anymore,
This review is from: Being Modern in Iran (Hardcover)
I like it when an author takes a broad, difficult subject and 1.) gives a good generalization, with some proof 2.)penetrates very deep into a very few specific examples. Adelkhah does that quite well.First, he touches on the broad view of an emerging civil culture in Iran, without which Iran cannot become a "modern" republic and certainly not a democratic one. He tells of the amazing changes to the city of Teheran as mayor Kharabashi challenged everyone to bring their (formerly private and exclusive) gardens out to the front of the street. If you have toured the traditional Middle East, you will have doubtless noticed that houses are built much like fortresses in the city-- emblematic of a culture that displays a seemingly congenital xenophobia. He also traces the origins of the sports craze in Iran, and the explosion of public parks and spaces. One cannot walk away from the book without a genuine sense that the Islamic Republic of Iran is actually undergoing tectonic changes from within that threaten to cast aside the clerical domination of the country in favor of something entirely new to the world: a Muslim democracy, whatever that turns out to be.
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Leader of the Revolution, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Imam Khomeyni, Nategh Nuri, Mohammad Khatami, Ali Khamenei, Faezeh Hashemi, Mayor of Tehran, Behesht-e Zahra, Revolutionary Guards, Society of Fighting Clergy, Constitution Guardianship Council, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, New York, Constitutional Revolution, Imam's Relief Committee, Islamic Left, Imam Ali, Imam Reza, Max Weber, Shia Islam, Ayatollah Montazeri, Farhad Jafari, Mehdi Bazargan, Minister of the Interior New!
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- Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age by Anthony Giddens in Front Matter, and page 141
- Roman Empire Pb (Folens History) by Carole Brown on page 124
- After Khomeini: The Iranian Second Republic by Anoushiravan Ehteshami in Front Matter
- The Invention of Tradition (Canto) by Eric Hobsbawm on page 99
- The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911 by Janet Afary on page 97
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- The Great Satan vs. the Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other by William O. Beeman on page 27, page 186, and Back Matter
- Religion and State by L. Carl. Brown on page 202, and Back Matter
- Religion and State by L. Carl. Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (The Ceri Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) by Olivier Roy on page 154, and page 270
- Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in the Middle East and Europe by John L. Esposito in Front Matter, and page 108
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