Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Iran

H. E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History Emeritus at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. He is the author of Onomastic Reform: Family Names and State Building in Iran (2020), Culture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (2018), Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 Years (2006) and Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPrefaceIn Conversation with Ervand AbrahamianStephanie CroninA Bibliography of Ervand AbrahamianH. E. ChehabiPart I. Iran in the World1. The 1907 Anglo-Russian Agreement: A PostscriptMangol Bayat2. Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 'Standard of Civilisation’H. E. Chehabi3. The Demise of the Anglo-Iranian Agreement of 1919Nahid MozaffariPart II. Transitions 4. From Sardar Sepah to Reza Shah: The Illegality of Pahlavi ReignMaziar Behrooz5. 'Abadan in Fire and Blood': The Role of the Crowd in the History of the Nationalisation of the Iranian Oil IndustryTouraj Atabaki6. Did Progressive Muslims Pave the Way for the Hegemony of "Khomeinism"? Public Religion and the 1979 RevolutionMojtaba Mahdavi7. Second Supreme Swapping: Prospects for Leadership Change in IranMehrzad BoroujerdiPart III. Politics8. The Tudeh Party of Iran's Attitude towards Mohammad MosaddeqSiavush Ranjbar Daemi9. The Shadow of Mosaddeq: History, Memory and the Construction of a MythAli Ansari10. Peykār Organization: History, Contexts, Transformations, ChallengesPeyman VahabzadehPart IV: Culture and Society11. Dialogue in Qānun: Theatrical Reporting as a Political DeviceSheida Dayani12. 'We became plucked': Reza Shah’s Education Policy and the Armenian Community of IranHouri Berberian13. Fātemeh Sayyāh: Forgotten Scholar, Public Intellectual and Women’s Rights AdvocateAfshin Matin-AsgariPart V. Life in the City14. The Poor as a Problem of Governance: Mashhad Poor House in 1939Mohammad Maljoo15. Leisure Architecture and the Aesthetics of the Pahlavi 'Modern Middle Class'Talinn Grigor16. The Reinvention of Mahallehs in Post-revolutionary Tehran: Spatial Reconfiguration and Political ControlAbbas Varij Kazemi and Arang KeshavarzianIndex

This is a splendid collection of rich and stimulating essays by some of the foremost scholars of modern Iran. A fitting tribute to Ervand Abrahamian, whose wide-ranging scholarship over the past six decades has profoundly enriched our understanding of twentieth century Iranian political, social and cultural history.