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The idea for this roundtable emerged from a special session held at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) in Denver in December 2022. As nationwide protests swept over Iran, many MESA members voiced support for organizing a public conversation that addressed various aspects of the Woman, Life, Freedom (WLF, Zan, Zendegi, Azadi) uprising. We thank MESA president, Eve Troutt Powell, for supporting this last-minute addition to the program. We are also very grateful to IJMES editor, Joel Gordon, for publishing these essays and enabling ongoing conversations about the WLF movement.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: firoozeh kashani-sabet and beth s. wenger -- 1. Jewish and Muslim feminist theologies in dialogue: discourses of difference -- 2. Jewish and Islamic legal traditions: diffusions of law -- 3. Scholarly versus women's authority in the Islamic law of menstrual purity -- 4. Gender duality and its subversions in rabbinic law -- 5. Gender and reproductive technologies in shia Iran -- 6. Not a man: Joseph and the character of masculinity in Judaism and Islam -- 7. Dishonorable passions: law and virtue in Muslim communities -- 8. Legislating the family: gender, Jewish law, and rabbinical courts in mandate Palestine -- 9. A literary perspective: domestic violence, the "woman question," and the "Arab question" in early Zionism -- 10. An autobiographical perspective: schools, jails, and cemeteries in shoshanna levy's life story -- 11. An artistic perspective the women of bahram beizai's cinema -- Afterword: common ground, contested terrain -- Glossary -- About the contributors -- Index

Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad: Modernity, heterotopi and homeless texts. - S. 2-13. Sheikholeslami, Reza: Patrimonial monarchy. Nassir al-Din Shah, 1848-1896. - S. 17-30. Katouzian, Homa: Problems of democracy and the public sphere in modern Iran. - S. 31-37. Mottahedeh, Negar: The mutilated body of the modern nation. Qurrat al-Ayn Tahirah's unveiling and the Iranian massacre of the Babis. - S. 38-50. Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh: "City of the dead". The frontier polemics of quarantines in the Ottoman Empire and Iran. - S. 51-58. Rubin, Michael: The telegraph and frontier politics. Modernization and the demarcation of Iran's borders. - S. 59-72. Vali, Abbas: The Kurds and their others. Fragmented identity and fragmented politics. - S. 82-95

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1 ORIENTALISM, MODERNITY, AND HISTORIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER 1 Paradigms of Iranian Nationalism: History, Theory, and Historiography -- CHAPTER 2 Franz Babinger and the Legacy of the "German Counter-Revolution" in Early Modern Iranian Historiography -- CHAPTER 3 The Berlin Circle: Iranian Nationalism Meets German Countermodernity -- CHAPTER 4 The Love That Dare Not Be Translated: Erasures of Premodern Sexuality in Modern Persian Mysticism -- PART 2 IMAGINING IRAN: LAND, ETHNICITY, AND PLACE -- CHAPTER 5 Imagining Iran before Nationalism: Geocultural Meanings of Land in Azar's Atashkadeh -- CHAPTER 6 The Khuzistani Arab Movement, 1941–1946: A Case of Nationalism? -- CHAPTER 7 "The Portals of Persepolis": The Role of Nationalism in Early U.S.-Iranian Relations -- CHAPTER 8 An Iranian in New York: ʿAbbas Masʿudi's Description of the Non-Iranian on the Eve of the Cold War -- PART 3 RELIGION, NATIONALISM, AND CONTESTED VISIONS OF MODERNITY -- CHAPTER 9 Islamic-Iranian Nationalism and Its Implications for the Study of Political Islam and Religious Nationalism -- CHAPTER 10 The Place of Islam in Interwar Iranian Nationalist Historiography -- CHAPTER 11 Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity and the Construction of New Histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- CHAPTER 12 Return of the Avant-garde to the Streets of Tehran -- CHAPTER 13 Construction of Iran's National Identity: Three Discourses -- CHAPTER 14 Relocating a Common Past and the Making of East-centric Modernity: Islamic and Secular Nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran -- CHAPTER 15 "East Is East, and West Is West, and Never the Twain Shall Meet"? Post-1979 Iran and the Fragile Fiction of Israel as a Euro-American Space -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- INDEX