Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi by Bianca Devos, Christoph Werner

By Bianca Devos, Christoph Werner

Tradition and Cultural Politics below Reza Shah offers a suite of leading edge learn at the interplay of tradition and politics accompanying the full of life modernization programme of the 1st Pahlavi ruler. studying a wide spectrum of this multifaceted interplay it makes a major contribution to the cultural background of the Twenties and Nineteen Thirties in Iran, while, lower than the rule of thumb of Reza Shah Pahlavi, dramatic alterations came about within Iranian society. With distinct connection with the sensible implementation of particular reform endeavours, some of the contributions significantly learn diversified features of the connection among cultural politics, person reformers and the standard lifetime of modernist Iranians.

Interpreting tradition in its broadest experience, this ebook brings jointly contributions from assorted disciplines resembling literary historical past, social historical past, ethnomusicology, artwork historical past, and center japanese politics. during this approach, it combines for the 1st time the cultural background of Iran’s modernity with the politics of the Reza Shah period.

Challenging a constrained figuring out of authoritarian rule below Reza Shah, this ebook is an invaluable contribution to present literature for college students and students of heart jap heritage, Iranian heritage and Iranian tradition.

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37–60. 35 Ahmadi, “The Institution of Persian Literature,” p. 145. 36 For the effect of the Bazgasht construct on the assessment of Persian poetry and literary history cf. Paul E. Losensky, Welcoming Figha-nı-. Imitation and Poetic Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 1998), pp. 50–52; for a telling example of the reasoning of a Bazgasht literary historian cf. the passage cited from Riza Quli Khan’s Majma’ al-fosaha, ibid, p. 50f. 37 Ahmadi, “The Institution of Persian Literature,” p.

18 Bozorg Alavi, Geschichte und Entwicklung der modernen persischen Literatur (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1964), p. 59. 19 “Bahar, der sicherlich selber der größte iranische Dichter der letzten Jahrhunderte gewesen ist,” Alavi, Geschichte und Entwicklung, p. 30. , p. 59. , p. 63. 21 Yahya Aryanpur, Az Saba ta Nima (Tehran: Entesharat-e Zavvar, 1372/1993), vol. 2, p. 335. 22 Mohammad Taqi Bahar, Tarikh-e tatavvor-e she‘r-e farsi, ed. , 1334/1955); cf. Loraine/Matini, “Baha-r,” p. 478. 23 Bahar, Sabk-shenasi, vol.

Smith, “Literary Connections,” p. 200. Homa Katouzian, Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer (London: Tauris, 1991), p. 9. 2 Policy or puzzle? 1 In reality many others had come up with the same idea before him, and some Iranians, statesmen as well as private individuals, had already taken the first steps towards its implementation. But did a master plan for the transformation of the existing institutions of higher education into the University of Tehran exist, including its extension and consolidation?

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