Hamid Rezaei Yazdi is an educator and researcher in the field of Middle Eastern studies, with an emphasis on the historiography of modern Iran. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and is currently a Professor at the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College.Arshavez Mozafari is a historian of modern Iran based in Toronto. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.

• 1. Introduction Hamid Rezaei Yazdi & Arshavez Mozafari PART 1 2. Rival Texts: Modern Persian Prose Fiction and the Myth of the Founding Father Hamid Rezaei Yazdi 3. Reactionary Interbellum Literature and the Demonic: ʿAlavī and Hidāyat Arshavez Mozafari 4. Linguistic Realism and Modernity: The Ontology of the Poetic from Suhrawardī to Sòāʾib Henry M. Bowles 5. A Predestined Break from the Past: Shiʾr-i Naw, History and Hermeneutics Fateme Montazeri PART 2 6. Intimating Tehran: The Figure of the Prostitute in Iranian Popular Literature, 1920s–1970s Jairan Gahan 7. Classical Persian Canons of the Revolutionary Press: Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī’s Circles in Istanbul and Moscow Samuel Hodgkin 8. Pneumatics of Blackness: Nāṣir Taqvā’ī’s Bād-i Jin and Modernity’s Anthropological Drive Parisa Vaziri

Hamid Rezaei Yazdi is an educator and researcher in the field of Middle Eastern studies, with an emphasis on the historiography of modern Iran. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and is currently a Professor at the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College.Arshavez Mozafari is a historian of modern Iran based in Toronto. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.

• 1. Introduction Hamid Rezaei Yazdi & Arshavez Mozafari PART 1 2. Rival Texts: Modern Persian Prose Fiction and the Myth of the Founding Father Hamid Rezaei Yazdi 3. Reactionary Interbellum Literature and the Demonic: ʿAlavī and Hidāyat Arshavez Mozafari 4. Linguistic Realism and Modernity: The Ontology of the Poetic from Suhrawardī to Sòāʾib Henry M. Bowles 5. A Predestined Break from the Past: Shiʾr-i Naw, History and Hermeneutics Fateme Montazeri PART 2 6. Intimating Tehran: The Figure of the Prostitute in Iranian Popular Literature, 1920s–1970s Jairan Gahan 7. Classical Persian Canons of the Revolutionary Press: Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī’s Circles in Istanbul and Moscow Samuel Hodgkin 8. Pneumatics of Blackness: Nāṣir Taqvā’ī’s Bād-i Jin and Modernity’s Anthropological Drive Parisa Vaziri

Hamid Rezaei Yazdi is an educator and researcher in the field of Middle Eastern studies, with an emphasis on the historiography of modern Iran. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and is currently a Professor at the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College.Arshavez Mozafari is a historian of modern Iran based in Toronto. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.

• 1. Introduction Hamid Rezaei Yazdi & Arshavez Mozafari PART 1 2. Rival Texts: Modern Persian Prose Fiction and the Myth of the Founding Father Hamid Rezaei Yazdi 3. Reactionary Interbellum Literature and the Demonic: ʿAlavī and Hidāyat Arshavez Mozafari 4. Linguistic Realism and Modernity: The Ontology of the Poetic from Suhrawardī to Sòāʾib Henry M. Bowles 5. A Predestined Break from the Past: Shiʾr-i Naw, History and Hermeneutics Fateme Montazeri PART 2 6. Intimating Tehran: The Figure of the Prostitute in Iranian Popular Literature, 1920s–1970s Jairan Gahan 7. Classical Persian Canons of the Revolutionary Press: Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī’s Circles in Istanbul and Moscow Samuel Hodgkin 8. Pneumatics of Blackness: Nāṣir Taqvā’ī’s Bād-i Jin and Modernity’s Anthropological Drive Parisa Vaziri