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Iranian Culture

Throughout modern Iranian history, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilization, reemerging as an equal to Western nations, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually reinterpreted, the representations and avocations of Iranian identity vary among Iranians across the world.

Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity demonstrates these fissures and the incompatibilities that refuse to be written out of national culture, analyzing works of literature, popular music, graphic art and film, as well as oral narratives. Using works produced before and after the 1979 revolution, created both inside and outside Iran, this study reveals neglected complexities and contradictions in the field of Iranian cultural production. It considers how contested claims to culture, whether they originated in Iran or the Iranian diaspora, shape our understanding of this culture and what spaces they create for new articulations of it, and in doing so offers an important reexamination of our collective concept of culture.

This book would be an excellent resource for students and scholars of Middle East studies and Iranian studies, specifically Iranian culture, including film and contemporary literature and the Iranian diaspora.

Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature and culture. She is author of Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History.

Iranian Studies

Edited by Homa Katouzian, University of Oxford and Mohamad Tavakoli, University of Toronto

Since 1967 the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) has been a leading learned society for the advancement of new approaches in the study of Iranian society, history, culture, and literature. The new ISIS Iranian Studies series published by Routledge will provide a venue for the publication of original and innovative scholarly works in all areas of Iranian and Persianate Studies.

1 Journalism in Iran

From mission to profession

Hossein Shahidi

2 Sadeq Hedayat

His work and his wondrous world

Edited by Homa Katouzian

3 Iran in the 21st Century

Politics, economics and conflict

Edited by Homa Katouzian and Hossein Shahidi

4 Media, Culture and Society in Iran

Living with globalization and the Islamic State

Edited by Mehdi Semati

5 Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan

Anomalous visions of history and form

Wali Ahmadi

6 The Politics of Iranian Cinema

Film and society in the Islamic Republic

Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

7 Continuity in Iranian Identity

Resilience of a cultural heritage

Fereshteh Davaran

8 New Perspectives on Safavid Iran

Empire and society

Edited by Colin P. Mitchell

9 Islamic Tolerance

Amr Khusraw and pluralism

Alyssa Gabbay

10 City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran

Shiraz, history and poetry

Setrag Manoukian

11 Domestic Violence in Iran

Women, marriage and Islam

Zahra Tizro

12 Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam

Quran, exegesis, messianism, and the literary origins of the Babi religion

Todd Lawson

13 Social Movements in Iran

Environmentalism and civil society

Simin Fadaee

14 Iranian-Russian Encounters

Empires and revolutions since 1800

Edited by Stephanie Cronin

15 Iran

Politics, history and literature

Homa Katouzian

16 Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran

Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

Pamela Karimi

17 The Development of the Babi/Bahai Communities

Exploring Baron Rosens Archives

Youli Ioannesyan

18 Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah

The Pahlavi state, new bourgeoisie and the creation of a modern society in Iran

Bianca Devos and Christoph Werner

19 Recasting Iranian Modernity

International relations and social change

Kamran Matin

20 The Sh-rzag in Zoroastrianism

A textual and historico-religious analysis

Enrico G. Raffaelli

21 Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction

Who writes Iran?

Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami

22 Nomads in Post-Revolutionary Iran

The Qashqai in an era of change

Lois Beck

23 Persian Language, Literature and Culture

New leaves, fresh looks

Edited by Kamran Talattof

24 The Dava Cult in the Gths

An ideological archaeology of Zoroastrianism

Amir Ahmadi

25 The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics

Elites and shifting relations

Bayram Sinkaya

26 Kirman and the Qajar Empire

Local dimensions of modernity in Iran, 17941914

James M Gustafson

27 The Thousand and One Borders of Iran

Travel and identity

Fariba Adelkhah

28 Iranian Culture

Representation and identity

Nasrin Rahimieh

29 The Historiography of Persian Architecture

Edited by Mohammad Gharipour

First published 2016

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2016 Nasrin Rahimieh

The right of Nasrin Rahimieh to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rahimieh, Nasrin.

Iranian culture : representation and identity / Nasrin Rahimieh.

pages cm. (Iranian studies ; 28)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. IranCivilization. 2. IranIntellectual life. I. Title.

DS266.R275 2016

955dc23

2015007782

ISBN: 978-1-138-91378-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-69118-3 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman

by Apex CoVantage, LLC

To the memory of my parents, Mahommad Rasoul Rahimieh and Oranous Hadidian, for teaching me that one could be at home in multiple languages and cultures

Contents

This book originated from my experiences as Maseeh Chair and Director, 20062014, of the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. I am grateful for the opportunities this Center afforded me to engage with students, colleagues, and members of the Iranian American community. The Maseeh Chair endowment, generously established by the Massiah Foundation, greatly enabled my research. I reserve a special recognition for Dr. Fariborz Maseeh, the founding benefactor of the Center. I would like to also acknowledge my fellow colleagues at the Center, Touraj Daryaee and Hossein Omoumi, and the Centers manager, Anglica Enrquez, who were part of the eight-year journey that resulted in this book.

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