Perceptions of Iran: history, myths and nationalism from medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic

In: International library of Iranian studies 37

Abstract

Myth, history and narrative displacement in Iranian historiography / Ali M. Ansari -- History, national identity and myths in Iranian contemporary political thought : Mirza Fathali Akhundzadeh (1812-78), Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani (1853-96) and Hassan Taqizadeh (1878-1970) / Pejman Abdolmohammadi -- Ancient Iran in the imagination of the medieval West / Robert Bartlett -- History and chronology in early modern Iran : the Safavid Empire in comparative perspective / Stephen P. Blake -- Historiography in late antique Iran / Touraj Daryaee -- Reverse Orientalism : Iranian reactions to the West / Farhang Jahanpour -- Herodotus' Cyrus and political freedom / Lynette Mitchell -- Iran and the Aryan myth / David Motadel -- History and its meaning in the Islamic Republic of Iran : the case of the Mongol invasion(s) and rule / Anja Pistor-Hatam -- Safavid Persia through Italian eyes : from reign of freedom to land of oppression / Elisa Sabadini -- History and Iranian drama : the case of Bahram Beyzaie / Saeed Talajooy