The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath? Ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls “dislocating nationalism,” in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is…
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