Iran and the Surrounding World

Nikki R. Keddie is professor emerita of history at UCLA and the author of many books, including Women in Middle Eastern History and Iran and the Muslim World. Rudi Matthee is associate professor of history at the University of Delaware. Other contributors are Bahman Baktiari, Thomas J. Barfield, Asef Bayat, Wilfried Buchta, Juan R. I. Cole, Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Golnar Mehran, Hamid Naficy, Vali Nasr, Monica M. Ringer, Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, Gary Sick, Abolala Soudavar, and Nayereh Tohidi.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPART ONE: OVERVIEWSIranian Culture and South Asia, 1500-1900Beyond Translation: Interactions between English and Persian PoetryTurk, Persian, and Arab: Changing Relationships between Tribes and State in Iran and along its FrontiersPART TWO: THE SAFAVID, QAJAR, AND PAHLAVI PERIODSThe Early Safavids and Their Cultural Interactions with Surrounding StatesSuspicion, Fear, and Admiration: Pre-Nineteenth-Century Iranian Views of the English and the RussiansThe Quest for the Secret of Strength in Iranian Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature: Rethinking Tradition in the "Safarnameh"Cultures of Iranianness: The Evolving Polemic of Iranian NationalismForeign Education, the Women's Press, and the Discourse of Scientific Domesticity in Early-Twentieth-Century IranPART THREE: CULTURE IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE WORLDInternational Connections of the Iranian Women's MovementThe Presentation of the "Self" and the "Other" in Postrevolutionary Iranian School TextbooksCinematic Exchange Relations: Iran and the WestPART FOUR: POLITICAL-CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH THE MUSLIM WORLDThe Failed Pan-Islamic Program of the Islamic Republic: Views of the Liberal Reformers of the Religious "Semi-Opposition"Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and AnxietiesThe Iranian Revolution and Changes in Islamism in Pakistan, India, and AfghanistanPART FIVE: THE POLITICS OF IRAN'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSIran's Foreign Policy: A Revolution in TransitionThe ContributorsIndex

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