Iran's Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections

ISBN-13: 9781848854154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 536 str.

H. E. Chehabi; Vanessa Martin

Opis

Born out of a fundamental tension between the old-fashioned and inadequate Qajar monarchy of Mozaffar al-Din Sah and Mohammad Ali Shah, and new reformist democratic ideals, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 represents a pivotal moment in the formation of modern Iran. The collapse of the state through financial indigence and foreign pressure -- which in the end also consumed the new regime -- created a vacuum, which became the subject of many different visions. These included the anti-constitutionalist arguments of Fazlollah Nuri; the moderate Shi'i vision of Tabatabai'I; the more gradualist secular approach of bureaucrats such as Sani-e Dowleh and Nasser Al-Molk; the various radical visions of Taqizadeh and Sattar Khan, as well as the Bakhtiaris. What were the reformists' various aims and how much did they accomplish in the years before Reza Shah seized power? How do events in Iran compare with similar uprisings in other parts of the world? And what role does the Constitutional Revolution continue to play in defining Iranian self-identity?This important and authoritative new book explores all the many different facets of the Revolution, drawing on newly available sources as well as cutting edge research from around the globe to present a definitive account. Iran's Constitutional Revolution seeks to develop and advance the many existing debates on the Revolution, as well as to open up new avenues of interpretation. It offers a uniquely comprehensive and insightful analysis of the subject and is essential reading for a full understanding of contemporary Iran.

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Acknowledgements - H. E. Chehabi and Vanessa Martin Table of Contents Contributors A Note on Transliteration and Dates Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms Introduction - Vanessa Martin I - HISTORIOGRAPHY 1. Whose Revolution? Stakeholders and Stories of the ‘Constitutional Movement’ in Iran, 1905-1911 - Joanna de Groot 2. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution as lieu(x) de mémoire: Sattar Khan - Anja Pistor-Hatam 3. Introducing Georgian Sources for the Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) - Iago Gocheleishvili II - STATE-BUILDING 4. Constitutional Rights and the Development of Civil Law in Iran, 1907-1941 - Ali Gheissari 5. The Constitutional Revolution, Popular Politics and State-Building in Iran - Stephanie Cronin 6. Municipalities and Constitutionalism in Iran - Reza Mokhtari Esfahani III - CLASS, TRIBE, MYSTICS AND MINORITIES: IDEOLOGY AND BELIEF 7. Merchants, Class Identification Process and Constitutionalism - Soheila Torabi Farsani 8. Tribes of the Homeland: The Bakhtiyari in the Revolutionary Press - Arash Khazeni 9. Revolution and a High Ranking Sufi: Zahir al-Dowleh’s Contribution to the Constitutional Movement - Lloyd Ridgeon 10. The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: Imami Shiite Law and Iran’s Constitutional Revolution - Daniel Tsadik IV - INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC INITIATIVES: PUBLIC AWAKENING 11. The Rowshanfekr in the Constitutional Period: an Overview - Mangol Bayat 12. Crafting Constitutionalism: An Iranian Secular Modernist Project - Nahid Mozaffari 13. Readership, the Press and the Public Sphere in the First Constitutional Era - Negin Nabavi 14. Writing in Tehran: The First Freedom of Press Law - Pardis Minuchehr 15. Constitutional Revolution and Persian Dramatic Works: An Observation on Social Relations Criticism in the Plays of the Constitutional Era (1906-1911) - Ali Miransari 16. National Identity and Photographs of the Constitutional Revolution - Reza Sheikh V - TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 17. Mashrutiyat, Me?rutiyet, and Beyond: Intellectuals and the Constitutional Revolutions of 1905-12 - Charles Kurzman 18. Crafting Constitutional Narratives: Iranian and Young Turk Solidarity 1907-1909 - Farzin Vejdani 19. Constitutionalists Sans Frontières: Iranian Constitutionalism and its Asian Connections - Touraj Atabaki 20. Mashruteh and al-Nahda: The Iranian Constitutional Revolution in the Iranian Diaspora Press of Egypt and in Arab Reformist Periodicals - Kamran Rastegar 21. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution as Reported in the Chinese Press - Yidan Wang 22. Japan and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution - Michael Penn Epilogue The Poetry of the Constitutional Revolution - Homa Katouzian Index