...Milad Odabaei Abstract After Iran's 1979 revolution, the energies that had animated the struggle for a modern Islamic government were partially redirected to the task of the renewal of the Islamic tradition. Paradigmatic of this effort is “the Cultural Revolution” that has sought to combat what...

...Narges Bajoghli Abstract Based on ethnographic research in Iran among the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its Basij militia, this article explores the process of gaining access to these militarized groups in order to conduct long-term research. Specifically, what does...

...Beeta Baghoolizadeh Abstract This article looks to two songs, “Layla Said” and “Mammad, You Weren't There to See,” to examine the politics of representation, race, religion, and nationalism in late twentieth-century Iran. “Layla Said,” a religious eulogy sung by Jahanbakhsh Kurdizadeh, would serve...

...Minoo Moallem Abstract This article focuses on the post–Iran-Iraq War representations of the martyr figure, with a close reading of the film Safar be Chazzabeh . The author interrogates the gendered representation of martyrdom and masculinity as central to the narration of the postwar films. She...

...Elleni Centime Zeleke; Arash Davari Abstract This essay outlines a research agenda the authors call “Third World Historical,” combining reflections from Ethiopia and Iran to query the legacies of revolutionary politics in our present. Third world activists from the 1960s and 1970s engaged...

... to the surface from static reservoirs and shipped around the world—is belied by the compositional heterogeneity of its deposits and the unpredictable dynamism of the buried geographies that hold them. Such factors have had important consequences within the histories of hydrocarbon-rich states like Iran...

... Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 24:1 (2004) ring; to the tradition, the culture to which they belong?” To interview Iranian women, Kousha sought the as- (251). In the interview with Ranger, Palmberg discusses sistance of her sisters still living in Iran. They found his...

..., saw through the hypocrisy of honor and valor of statist history: “Honor is a mere scutcheon––and so ends my catechism.” And, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi. Refashioning Iran: Oriental- “Give me life, which if I can save so: if not, honor...

...Camron Michael Amin Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Importing “Beauty Culture” into Iran in the 1920s and 1930s: Mass Marketing Individualism in an Age of Anti- Imperialist Sacrifice CAMRON MICHAEL AMIN...

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... documentary captures this contested Comparative quence and his trademark subtly accented voice be- stance as an opportunity to investigate laws pertain- speak a mind that is as critical as ever, the juxtaposi- ing to women’s rights in Iran and to discuss social Studies...

...Alireza Anushiravani Anushiravani’s essay is a historical and critical survey of comparative literature in Iran that discusses its present challenges and potentialities for development in the context of new directions in the field. It is divided into three parts; the first examines the origins...

...Talinn Grigor This essay traces the Persian artistic revival of two separate but interdependent communities: the Parsis of the British Raj and the reformist Muslims and Zoroastrians of Qajar Iran. The two communities, with their own distinct, though at times overlapping, art historical developments...

...Ranin Kazemi This article focuses on one of the most serious cases of famine in Iran in the nineteenth century. Reading through a wide range of contemporary documents, Kazemi uses this episode as a case study to talk about the larger problem of subsistence crises and natural disasters in Iran...

... . The Colonial Harem , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Azari , Farah , 1983 . Women of Iran, The Conflict with Fundamentalist Islam , London: Ithaca Press. Balibar , Etienne , and Immanuel Wallerstein, 1988 . Race, Nation, Class: Les Identités Ambigues , Paris: Editions la...

...Afshin Matin-Asgari © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Iran: Religious Revolution or Structural Realignment in State Formation? Afshin Matin-Asgari This afternoon I participated in the Senate’s celebra- and analytical frame of reference allows...

..., excepting the Ottoman Empire. Even in the case of the Ottoman Empire, the study of the cross-border link has been limited to the nonreciprocal impact that the movement for change and reform in the Ottoman Empire had on late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Iran, with no reference...

... light on the impact of Ottoman reformist and constitutional movements in similar developments in Iran and the role of modernizing bureaucrats, merchants, ulema, and intellectuals in the diffusion of an alternative and indigenous modernist and constitutionalist ideology from Istanbul to Tabriz...