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Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 41-56, Summer 2026.Abstract The Iranian revolution of 1979 is generally portrayed either as the catalyst of sectarian polarization in the Middle East or, more recently, as the foundation of a pragmatic grand strategy shaped by geopolitical insecurity and learning forged by decades of war. This article challenges this binary opposition between ideology and strategy.
Alabbas F. Alsudani
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URBANISM AND DICTATORSHIP: A Study on Urban Planning in Contemporary History of Iran, Second Pahlavi: 1941-1979 [PDF]
, 2020 The evolution of urbanism under dictatorship forms the core of the current research. This thesis is part of a research network at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which studies the 20th century's urbanism under different dictatorships.
Javanmardi, Leila
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Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS [PDF]
, 2007 This is a proposal to encode Inscriptional Parthian and Inscriptional Pahlavi in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The scripts were published in Unicode Standard version 5.2 in October 2009.
Everson, Michael, Pournader, Roozbeh
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‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 578-598, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
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“American Islam”: The Politics of Religious Authenticity in Iran
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 35, Issue 3, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT This article analyzes “American Islam” as a political category of religious authenticity in the Islamic Republic of Iran rather than as a fixed theological concept. Using a critical discourse‐analytic framework, it examines how Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei construct and operationalize the opposition between pure Muhammadan Islam ...
Fateh Saeidi
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Muhammad Reza Pahlavi and the Bahrain Question, 1968–1970
, 2010 This paper examines the role of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, in the secret Anglo-Iranian negotiations over Bahrain from January 1968 to March 1970.
Roham Alvandi, Alvandi, Roham
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The Pahlavi Andarz literature. [PDF]
, 1964 The first part of the work gives a survey of the andarz books extant in Pahlavi. The texts are arranged according to whether they are attributed to a likely or legendary author or are anonymous.
Shaked, Shaul
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National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 414-425, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
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A Pahlavi Forerunner of the Umayyad Reformed Coinage
, 1981 The purpose of this note is to make known a remarkable, and hitherto unrecorded, drachma of Arab-Sasanian form, issued in the year 72/691–2 by the Governor of Sīstān 'Abd al-'Azīz b. 'Abdallāh b.
Malek Iradj Mochiri
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Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 279-298, February 2026.ABSTRACT This study aims to determine whether the practices companies carry out to contribute to the SDGs have an impact on sustainable development and influence their performance. It also seeks to establish whether sustainable development enables companies to improve their business results.
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