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" Debating Iranians: The discursive practice of Munāzirah and the making of Modern Iran "
Hamid Rezaei Yazdi
Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804055
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TL48868
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1811409463; 10134179
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Mallick, Suman
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Debating Iranians: The discursive practice of Munāzirah and the making of Modern Iran\ Hamid Rezaei YazdiTavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad
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University of Toronto (Canada)
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
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2015
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254
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Committee members: Brookshaw, Dominic; Downes, Paul; Hassanpour, Amir; Reilly, James; Sandler, Rivanne
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-92674-2
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Iranian modernity has chiefly been examined in the context of a dialectical antagonism between 'traditionalists' and 'modernists.' Following this binaristic approach, early demands for reform within the country have often been (de)historicized as a theatre of national 'awakening' resulting from the toils of secular intellectuals in overcoming the resistance of traditional reactionaries, a confrontation between two purportedly well-defined and mutually-exclusive camps. Such reductionist dialectics has generally overwritten the dialogic narrative of Iranian modernity, a conflicted dialogue misrepresented as a conflicting dialectic. Historical evidence suggests that in fact the heated debate over the definition of being modern and the limits of modernization was often conducted on the universally acknowledged premise of the simultaneity and commensurability of Islam with modern civilization. This defining feature of Iranian modernity has been silenced in scholarship that views modernity as the dialectic, and diametric, opposition of the old and the new. The genre that recorded the dialogue of rival discourses, the <i>munāzirah</i> (debate or disputation), draws on a long-standing tradition in classical and religious literature. However, in the modern era the <i>munāzirah</i> gradually transformed from a polemic between the mentor and the disciple, the wise and the haughty, to a debate between competing discourses which engaged in opposing, informing, appropriating, and complementing each other. Beyond its narrative manifestation in the form of treatises, the discursive practice of the <i>munāzirah</i> was also present in social practices, official policies, intellectual endeavours, and cultural expressions. In each of these articulations, rival discourses had to vie for legitimacy, often with the shared but ambiguous sentiment that there is no fundamental difference between east-Islam and west-civilization. The binaries so central to the contemporary studies of modern Iranian history disintegrate into overlapping hybrids when put in historical perspective. The <i>munāzirah</i> is the account of modern Iranian histories.
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Middle Eastern literature; Middle Eastern history; Middle Eastern studies; Articulation; Narratives
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Constitutional revolution;Dialogism;Iranian modernity;Modern Iranian history;Modern Iranian literature;Munazirah
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Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad
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Near and Middle Eastern CivilizationsUniversity of Toronto (Canada)
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