Constructing Nationalism in Iran

Meir Litvak is Associate Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern History, Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Shi‘i Scholars of Nineteenth Century Iraq: The ‘Ulama’ of Najaf and Karbala’ and published widely on modern Shi`ism.

• 1 IntroductionMeir Litvak 2 The Construction of Iranian National Identity: An Overview Meir Litvak3 Persian-Iranian National Identity: The longue durée, from Achaemenid times onward Azar Gat4 Four Iterations of Persian Literary Nationalism Nasrin Rahimieh5 Intersectionality and the Narrative of Nationalism Eliz Sanasarian6 Gendering the Nation: Masculinity and Nationalism in Iran during the Constitutional Revolution Sivan Balslev7 Nationalism and Islam in a Provincial Setting: Late Qajar Isfahan Meir Litvak8 Iranian Nationalism and the question of Race Ali M Ansari9 Nationalist Representations of the Persian Gulf under Reza Shah PahlaviChelsi Mueller10 Iranian Nationalism, Islamic Unity and Shi‘sm in Iran's Regional Policy: From the Pahlavis to the Islamic Republic Raz Zimmt 11 Surveying the 'Sheikhdoms' of the Persian Gulf, 1966-1973: Newspaperman ‘Abbas Mas‘udi and the Construction of Iranian Nationalism in Foreign Policy Camron Michael Amin12 "True Muslims Must Always Be Tidy and Clean": Exoticism of the Countryside in Late Pahlavi IranMenahem Merhavi13 "The Jew Has a Lot of Money, Too": Representations of Jews in twentieth Century Iranian Culture Orly Rahimyan14 Jewish Intellectuals in Iran and Their Quest for Iranian National Identity in the first half of the twentieth century Miriam Nissimov15 Pre-revolutionary Islamic Discourse in Iran as Nationalism: Islamism in Iran as nationalism Alexander Greenberg16 Nationalism and the Islamic Republic of IranBernard Hourcade17 Beyond Boundaries: Iranian Azeris in an Age of Globalization Geoffrey F. Gresh 18 Guarding the Nation: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Nationalism, and the Iran-Iraq War Annie Tracy-Samuel19 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