Constructing nationalism in Iran : from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic / edited by Meir Litvak.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-305) and index.

The construction of Iranian national identity : an overview / Meir Litvak -- Persian-Iranian national identity : the longue dureé, from Achaemenid times onward / Azar Gat -- Four iterations of Persian literary nationalism / Nasrin Rahimieh -- Intersectionality and the narrative of nationalism / Eliz Sanasarian -- Gendering the nation : masculinity and nationalism in Iran during the constitutional revolution / Sivan Balslev -- Nationalism and Islam in a provincial setting : late Qajar Isfahan / Meir Litvak -- Iranian nationalism and the question of race / Ali M. Ansari -- Nationalist representations of the Persian Gulf under Reza Shah Pahlavi / Chelsi Mueller -- Iranian nationalism, Islamic unity and Shi'ism in Iran's regional policy : from the Pahlavis to the Islamic Republic / Raz Zimmt -- Surveying the 'sheikhdoms' of the Persian Gulf, 1966-1973 : newspaperman ʻAbbas̄ Masʻud̄i ̄and the construction of Iranian nationalism in foreign policy / Camron Michael Amin -- "True Muslims must always be tidy and clean" : exoticism of the countryside in late Pahlavi Iran / Menahem Merhavi -- "The Jew has a lot of money, too" : representations of Jews in twentieth century Iranian culture / Orly Rahimyan -- Jewish intellectuals in Iran and their quest for Iranian national identity in the first half of the twentieth century / Miriam Nissimov -- Pre-revolutionary Islamic discourse in Iran as nationalism : Islamism in Iran as nationalism / Alexander Greenberg -- Nationalism and the Islamic Republic of Iran / Bernard Hourcade -- Beyond boundaries : Iranian Azeris in an age of globalization / Geoffrey F. Gresh -- Guarding the nation : the Iranian revolutionary guards, nationalism, and the Iran-Iraq war / Annie Tracy-Samuel -- From state to nation and from nation to state in Egypt : the role of the state in the formation of nationalism and the role of nationalism in the formation of the state, 1805-1952 / Israel Gershoni.