Iran's Constitutional Revolution

Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections

H. E. Chehabi, Vanessa Martin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

536 Seiten

2022
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4923-5 (ISBN)

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Born out of a fundamental tension between the old-fashioned and inadequate Qajar monarchy of Mozaffar al-Din Sah and Mohammad Ali Shah, and new reformist democratic ideals, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 represents a pivotal moment in the formation of modern Iran. The collapse of the state through financial indigence and foreign pressure - which in the end also consumed the new regime - created a vacuum, which became the subject of many different visions. These included the anti-constitutionalist arguments of Fazlollah Nuri; the moderate Shi'i vision of Tabatabai'I; the more gradualist secular approach of bureaucrats such as Sani-e Dowleh and Nasser Al-Molk; the various radical visions of Taqizadeh and Sattar Khan, as well as the Bakhtiaris. What were the reformists' various aims and how much did they accomplish in the years before Reza Shah seized power? How do events in Iran compare with similar uprisings in other parts of the world? And what role does the Constitutional Revolution continue to play in defining Iranian self-identity?
This important and authoritative new book explores all the many different facets of the Revolution, drawing on newly available sources as well as cutting edge research from around the globe to present a definitive account.

Houchang E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. His previous publications include Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (I.B.Tauris), Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini and Politics, Society and Democracy: Comparative Studies (with Alfred Stepan). Vanessa Martin is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her previous publications include Islam and Modernism: The Iranian Revolution of 1906, Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran and The Qajar Pact: Bargaining Protest and the State in Nineteenth Century Iran (all with I.B.Tauris).

Acknowledgements - H. E. Chehabi and Vanessa Martin
Table of Contents
Contributors
A Note on Transliteration and Dates
Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms

Introduction - Vanessa Martin

I - HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Whose Revolution? Stakeholders and Stories of the ‘Constitutional Movement’ in Iran, 1905-1911
- Joanna de Groot
2. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution as lieu(x) de mémoire: Sattar Khan
- Anja Pistor-Hatam
3. Introducing Georgian Sources for the Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911)
- Iago Gocheleishvili

II - STATE-BUILDING

4. Constitutional Rights and the Development of Civil Law in Iran, 1907-1941
- Ali Gheissari
5. The Constitutional Revolution, Popular Politics and State-Building in Iran
- Stephanie Cronin
6. Municipalities and Constitutionalism in Iran
- Reza Mokhtari Esfahani

III - CLASS, TRIBE, MYSTICS AND MINORITIES: IDEOLOGY AND BELIEF

7. Merchants, Class Identification Process and Constitutionalism
- Soheila Torabi Farsani
8. Tribes of the Homeland: The Bakhtiyari in the Revolutionary Press
- Arash Khazeni
9. Revolution and a High Ranking Sufi: Zahir al-Dowleh’s Contribution to the
Constitutional Movement
- Lloyd Ridgeon
10. The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: Imami Shiite Law and Iran’s
Constitutional Revolution
- Daniel Tsadik

IV - INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC INITIATIVES: PUBLIC AWAKENING

11. The Rowshanfekr in the Constitutional Period: an Overview
- Mangol Bayat
12. Crafting Constitutionalism: An Iranian Secular Modernist Project
- Nahid Mozaffari
13. Readership, the Press and the Public Sphere in the First Constitutional Era
- Negin Nabavi
14. Writing in Tehran: The First Freedom of Press Law
- Pardis Minuchehr
15. Constitutional Revolution and Persian Dramatic Works: An Observation on Social Relations Criticism in the Plays of the Constitutional Era (1906-1911)
- Ali Miransari
16. National Identity and Photographs of the Constitutional Revolution
- Reza Sheikh

V - TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

17. Mashrutiyat, Me?rutiyet, and Beyond: Intellectuals and the Constitutional Revolutions of 1905-12
- Charles Kurzman
18. Crafting Constitutional Narratives: Iranian and Young Turk Solidarity 1907-1909
- Farzin Vejdani
19. Constitutionalists Sans Frontières: Iranian Constitutionalism and its Asian Connections
- Touraj Atabaki
20. Mashruteh and al-Nahda: The Iranian Constitutional Revolution in the Iranian Diaspora Press of Egypt and in Arab Reformist Periodicals
- Kamran Rastegar
21. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution as Reported in the Chinese Press
- Yidan Wang
22. Japan and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
- Michael Penn

Epilogue

The Poetry of the Constitutional Revolution
- Homa Katouzian

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	42 integrated bw
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7556-4923-0 / 0755649230
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4923-5 / 9780755649235
Zustand	Neuware