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Foucault In Iran
''Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution After the Enlightenment'' is a book by Iranian-born American historian, sociologist, and professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi as a groundbreaking reassessment of Michel Foucault's writings specially on the Iranian revolution. Content Michel Foucault, on the eve of the victory of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, traveled to Iran twice and in the eight reports he wrote for the ''Corriere della Sera'' newspaper, he showed deep sympathy with the revolutionary people of Iran and praised their Islamic revolution. Later, many French intellectuals reprimanded him for being deceived by the Iranian revolution. Foucault did not give an explicit answer to these criticisms, and it was even thought that he implicitly reversed his position in his previous writings about Iran. Little by little, these arguments were forgotten until after September 11 attacks, the previous disputes erupted again and new attacks began against Foucault and his association with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (born 28 June 1960) is an Iranian-born American historian, sociologist, and professor. He is known for his works on the Iranian revolution and its aftermath. Ghamari-Tabrizi serves as the Professor of Near Eastern Studies, and as the Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. Career Ghamari-Tabrizi received a PhD in 1998 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He joined Princeton University in February 2019. Previously he was professor of history and sociology and the Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universi .... He was awarded a Beckman Fellowship in 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Foucault Bibliography
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a prominent twentieth-century French philosopher, who wrote prolifically. Many of his works were translated into English. Works from his later years remain unpublished. Monographs Collège de France Course Lectures Other Lectures In a 1967 lecture, titled in English as either "Different Spaces" or "Of Other Spaces" (reprinted in ''Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology'', and in ''The Visual Culture Reader'', ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff), Foucault coined a novel concept of the heterotopia. Collaborative works Other books Anthologies In French, almost all of Foucault's shorter writings, published interviews and miscellany have been published in a collection called ''Dits et écrits'', originally published in four volumes in 1994, latterly in only two volumes. In English, there are a number of overlapping anthologies, which often use conflicting translations of the overlapping pieces, frequently with different titles. Richard Lynch'bibliographyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern History Of Iran
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Works About Revolutions
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The Pragmatic Entente
''The Pragmatic Entente: Israeli–Iranian Relations, 1948–1988'' is the first comprehensive work on the history of long-standing yet ever-changing relationship between Israel and Iran. The book is written by Sohrab Sobhani, Iranian-American adjunct professor of International Relations at Georgetown University. Content The author of this book, Sohrab Sobhani, has used the first-hand experiences and reports of people who were involved in the relations between Israel and Iran, before and after the arrival of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran in 1979. In this book, the relationship between Israel and Iran is studied in the complex background of Middle East politics. The author interviews many former Iranian officials and reveals a wealth of new information that explains why Iran and Israel act the way they do and why their interests have been intertwined for the past forty years. The book examines the main trends in the emergence of relations between the two countries of Israel and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not For The Faint Of Heart
''Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power and Persistence'' is a 2018 book by American diplomat Wendy Sherman based on her time as the lead United States negotiator, during the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA). Content The book ''Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power and Persistence'' is about the memoirs of American chief negotiator ''Wendy Sherman'' during Iran nuclear deal. The book is "a complete explanation of how the JCPOA was drafted and approved" from Wendy Sherman's point of view. The book takes the reader to the world of international diplomacy and brings their mind to the mind of one of the most effective negotiators who is often the only woman in the room. The author admits why it is difficult to do well in her field. By reading ''Not for the Faint of Heart'', the reader will learn how to apply key diplomacy skills to their daily lives and face challenges. In this book, Wendy Sherman has tried to tell about her experiences to overcome the obsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopaedia Islamica
The ''Encyclopaedia Islamica'' is an encyclopedia on Islamic and Iranian studies published by Brill, comprising a projected 16-volume translation of selected articles from the new Persian ''Dā'erat-ol-Ma'āref-e Bozorg-e Eslāmi'' ( fa, دائرةالمعارف بزرگ اسلامی, "''The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia''"), supplemented by additional articles written in English by scholars affiliated with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.Mousa al-Reza WahdatiReview of Encyclopaedia Islamica Volume 3(Adab – al-Bāb al-Ḥādī ͑ashar) ed. by Farhad Daftary, Wilferd Madelung. Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies. Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 2015. pp. 107–109.Suzanne M. Estelle-HolmerReview of Wilferd Madelung and Farhad Daftary, eds. Encyclopaedia Islamica Vol. 1: ‘Aba’- Abu Hanifa. Theological Librarianship. An Online Journal of the American Theological Library Association. Volume 2, Number 2 • December 2009. pp. 103–104. The Persian-language project has been led by Kazem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopædia Iranica
''Encyclopædia Iranica'' is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times. Scope The ''Encyclopædia Iranica'' is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the wider Middle East, the Caucasus, Southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences. It is a project founded by Ehsan Yarshater in 1973 and currently carried out at Columbia University's Center for Iranian Studies. It is considered the standard encyclopedia of the academic discipline of Iranistics. The scope of the encyclopedia goes beyond modern Iran (also known as "Persia") and encompasses the entire Iranian cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cambridge History Of Iran
''The Cambridge History of Iran'' is a multi-volume survey of Iranian history published in the United Kingdom by Cambridge University Press. The seven volumes cover "the history and historical geography of the land which is present-day Iran, as well as other territories inhabited by peoples of Iranian descent, from prehistoric times up to the present. History The publication started in 1968 and in 1989 the last volume was published. The idea of publishing such a survey of Iranian history and culture was conceived in 1959 by Arthur J. Arberry. According to the scholar Hubert Darke, who served as editorial secretary to the project between 1970 and 1993, "The series was planned to be not simply a political history of Iran but to survey the culture which has flourished in the Iranian region and this culture’s contribution to the civilization of the world. All aspects of the religious, philosophical, economic, scientific, and artistic elements in Iranian civilization have been studie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Comprehensive History Of Iran
The Comprehensive History of Iran ( fa, تاریخ جامع ایران, italic=yes) is a twenty-volume book series about various aspects of Iran's political, social and cultural history from pre-Islamic times to the extinction of the Qajar dynasty. The research, compilation and writing of this multi-volume book has lasted for 14 years. The first five volumes of this series narrate the period of ancient Iran and the other 15 volumes narrate the history of Iran in the Islamic period, political, social, cultural, scientific, literary and artistic history. One hundred and seventy foreign and domestic authors have been used to write this multi-volume book. Formation and release The book ''The Comprehensive History of Iran'' has been prepared for fourteen years by more than 170 researchers, under the supervision of Kazem Mousavi-Bojnourdi and under the auspices of the Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation. Ten volumes of this book were unveiled in 2014 and its com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution
''History of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution'' ( fa, تاریخ مشروطهٔ ایران) is a non-fiction book by the Iranian historian Ahmad Kasravi. Cited as the most accurate account of the Persian Constitutional Revolution, it chronicles the event and the ensuing struggle of the revolution that took place between 1905 and 1911 in Persia (known today as Iran). The book was originally written in 1940 in Persian. In 2006, the first volume of the book was translated to English and published by American scholar Evan Siegel. Books * Ahmad Kasravi, ''Tarikh-e Mashruteh-ye Iran'' (تاریخ مشروطهٔ ایران) (History of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution), in Persian, 951 p. (Negāh Publications, Tehran, 2003), . :Note: This book is also available in two volumes, published by ''Amir Kabir Publications'' in 1984. ''Amir Kabir's'' 1961 edition is in one volume, 934 pages. * Ahmad Kasravi, ''History of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Tarikh-e Mashrute-ye Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran Between Two Revolutions
''Iran Between Two Revolutions'' is a book by Ervand Abrahamian that was published in 1982 by Princeton University Press in New Jersey, United States. This book has been translated into Persian and published many times in Iran. The book has eleven chapters. Content The book "''Iran Between Two Revolutions''" was written by Ervand Abrahamian in English language based on political sociology, to analyze the social and political events of the last century in Iran. The book has been translated into Persian language and reprinted 30 times in Iran by different publishers. The author examines the history of Iran from the constitutional revolution in 1905 to the Islamic revolution of 1979 and has divided the book into 3 main parts: historical background, anti-social politics and contemporary Iran. The main purpose of this book is to analyze the social foundations of Iran's politics, and ''Ervand Abrahamian'' does this by examining class and ethnic conflicts over the past hundr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |