Lucian Stone is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Dakota, USA.

• Editor's Introduction: Farsi Shekar Ast: Heterogeneity, Disorientation, Cosmopolitanism, Lucian Stone (University of North Dakota, USA)1. Iranian Intellectuals and Cosmopolitan Citizenship, Ramin Jahanbegloo (University of Toronto, Canada)2. Metaphysics, Secularism, and Cosmopolitan Democracy, Alireza Shomali (Wheaton College, USA) and Ebrahim K.Soltani (Eastern Michigan University, USA)3. On the Assumed Dichotomy in the Structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Unbearable Burden of Being an Intellectual in Iran, Reza Afshari (Pace University, USA)4. Cosmopolitan Resistance and Territorial Suppression: A Story of Dissidence and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Shahla Talebi (Arizona State University, USA) 5. Cosmopolitan Violence as Cosmological Reckoning: The Poetics of the Night-Raid, the Martyred Body, and the Execution-Spectacle, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Babson College, USA)6. Armenians in Iran, or the Limits of Cosmopolitanism, Nasrin Rahimieh (University of California Irvine,USA)7. Cosmopolitanism: Neither For, Nor Against, To the Contrary, Farhang Erfani (American University, USA)Appendix: On Cosmopolitanism, Bryan Lueck (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)BibliographyIndex

Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism has numerous contributors. They represent a broad spectrum of Iranian intellectuals who have immigrated to North America. Their disciplines include history, political science, comparative literature, philosophy, and religious studies. The chapters are wide ranging in topics, from citizenship and democracy to dissidence and martyrdom. Women as well as minorities find their voices among these contributors.