Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography

by M. Tavakoli-Targhi

Overview

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made 'homeless' by subsequent nationalist histories and shows how they relate to Indo-Iranian modernity. In doing so, he argues for a radical rewriting of Iranian history with profound implications for Islamic debates on gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333949221
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/10/2001
Series:	St Antony's Series
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MOHAMAD TAVAKOLI-TARGHI is Associate Professor of Historiography and Middle Eastern History at the Illinois State University. His publications have appeared in Radical America, Iranian Studies, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Romanization and Dates Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia Persianate Europology Imagining European Women Contested Memories Crafting National Identity Patriotic and Matriotic Nationalism Postscript Index

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