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Ghamari-Tabrizi, “Foucault in Iran”
In August, the University of Minnesota Press will release “Foucault in Iran” by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). The publisher’s description follows: Were the...
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Mirsepassi, “Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought”
In March, Cambridge University Press will release Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid by Ali Mirsepassi (New York University). The publisher’s description...
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De Nicola, “Women in Mongol Iran”
In February, the University of Edinburgh Press will release Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335 by Bruno De Nicola (University of St. Andrews). The publisher’s description follows: Bruno De...
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Saffari, “Beyond Shariati”
This month, Cambridge University Press releases “Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought,” by Siavash Saffari (Columbia University). The publisher’s...
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Siavoshi, “Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran’s Revolutionary Ayatollah”
Next month, Cambridge University Press will release Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran’s Revolutionary Ayatollah by Sussan Siavoshi (Trinity University). The publisher’s description follows: By...
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Amanat, “Iran”
Looking back from the perspective of forty years, the Iranian Revolution appears more and more as a turning point in world history. The Shia political resurgence encouraged similar Islamist movements...
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Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web: The general commanding Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has announced the defeat of “sedition” in the country, an apparent...
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Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web: Vandals left swastikas and anti-Polish profanities on the gates of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv; a day before, the Polish...
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Amin Saikal on Iran
This looks very interesting. Princeton University Press has just released Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic, by political scientist Amin Saikal (Australian National...
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What’s Happening in Iran?
We tend to forget, in America, that sometimes anti-American governments really do have support from local populations. Here is a timely book from Stanford, Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the...
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