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Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial pretensions of its own: modern Iran is in many ways a reflection of its struggle to reconcile its traditions with the challenges of modernity.In this book, Ali Ansari takes readers on a journey through Iran’s turbulent history. Beginning with the country’s fall from grace as a Great Power in the nineteenth century, he explores its repeated attempts to modernize in a series of revolutionary movements from the Constitutional Revolution of 1906 to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the civil unrest that is breaking out today. In so doing, he reveals how the experience of history and Iran’s encounter with ‘modernity’ have come to define it – and set it on an authoritarian path in confrontation with the West and, often, its own people.
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Étrange pays que cet État chiite qui n'a jamais rompu avec son passé préislamique et qui, malgré son particularisme, a toujours exercé un rayonnement culturel bien au-delà de ses frontières. Curieux destin que celui de ce vieil empire aujourd'hui entouré de jeunes États, objet, pendant le XIXe siècle et le début du XXe, de rivalités entre puissances russe et britannique, et qui est aussi la première nation du Moyen-Orient à s'être dotée d'une Constitution moderne à la suite d'une révolution dès 1906. Précurseur dans la nationalisation de ses ressources pétrolières, l'Iran est également le premier pays à avoir connu une révolution islamique qui a provoqué un séisme politique à travers le monde musulman et au-delà. Aujourd'hui, les Iraniens et les Iraniennes cherchent la voie pour sortir d'un régime despotique et misogyne qui refuse d'entendre leurs revendications. L'histoire contemporaine de l'Iran, laboratoire politique et nation à part, du point de vue identitaire et historique, vaut d'être connue. Le présent ouvrage a pour ambition d'initier le lecteur à cette histoire foisonnante de l'Iran des deux derniers siècles (1796-2023).
Geopolitics --- Iran
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This study provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of Islam as a ruling framework in postrevolutionary Iran up to the present day. Beginning with the position and structure of Iran's clerical establishment under the Islamic Republic, Kamrava delves into the jurisprudential debates that have shaped the country's political institutions and state policies. Kamrava draws on extensive fieldwork to examine various religious narratives that inform the basis of contemporary Iranian politics, also revealing the political salience of common practices and beliefs, such as religious guardianship and guidance, Islam as a source of social protection, the relationship between Islam and democracy, the sources of divine and popular legitimacy, and the theoretical justifications for religious authoritarianism. Providing access to many Persian-language sources for the first time, Kamrava shows how religious intellectual production in Iran has impacted the ongoing transformation of Iranian Shi'ism and ultimately underwritten the fate of the Islamic Republic.
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A remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important primary source for the history of the Middle East in the period. They shed light on the Safavid conflict with the Uzbeks and Ottomans, which played a decisive role in shaping the modern frontiers of the region. The Memoirs also represent an invaluable source for the internal political and religious life of the Safavid court, and the ways in which Shah Tahmasp, one of the most important rulers in Iranian history, wished to be remembered and viewed. This first English translation is furnished with an extensive introduction and notes that situate the work in its literary and historical context.
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« Le 16 novembre 2021, pour la douzième fois de ma vie, j'ai été arrêtée et pour la quatrième fois condamnée à être placée en cellule d'isolement. Cette fois, mon chef d'accusation, vous le tenez entre vos mains : c'est ce livre, Torture blanche. On m'enfermera encore. Mais je continuerai de me battre jusqu'à ce que les droits humains et la justice règnent dans mon pays. » Narges MohammadiInfatigable militante des droits humains, Narges Mohammadi, prix Nobel de la Paix 2023, livre depuis la prison de Zanjan où elle est incarcérée le tableau terrifiant du traitement infligé par la République islamique d'Iran aux prisonnières politiques et aux militantes, soumises à la « torture blanche », une peine d'isolement total. Les entretiens qu'elle a menés, dans des conditions particulièrement dangereuses, avec treize détenues constituent un témoignage de résistance unique et un acte de courage qui s'inscrit dans le sillage du mouvement « Femme, vie, liberté »
Femmes -- Iran --- Prisonnières -- Iran --- Récits personnels --- Women prisoners --- Women political prisoners --- Torture --- Political prisoners
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"In Exercising Authority and Representing Rule, András Barati examines twenty-two hitherto unpublished Persian royal decrees issued by various rulers of eighteenth-century Iran and Afghanistan kept at the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawīin Mashhad. Considering the paucity of primary sources from this period due to relatively frequent political turmoils, he aims to improve this situation by offering the transcription and translation of these original documents as well as a commentary concerning the textual elements, external aspects, and content of the decrees. Making use of previously published documents, András Barati presents the first substantial study on post-Safavid eighteenth-century diplomatics and addresses several issues related to the political, economic, and administrative history of the region in the early modern period"--
Diplomatics, Arabic. --- Diplomatique arabe. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politique et gouvernement --- Iran --- Iran --- Afghanistan --- Iran --- History --- Politics and government --- Politics and government
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The US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018 and the return of international sanctions against Tehran turned out to have enormous implications for the Middle Eastern country's commercial interactions with its largest trading partner, China, affecting corrosively every aspect of economic, financial, and technological relationship between the two sides.
Iran --- China --- Foreign economic relations --- Foreign economic relations
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World history --- Ancient history --- Roman history --- Romeinse oudheid --- oudheid --- Iran
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Political systems --- Political parties --- anno 1900-1999 --- Iran
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