Mashriq & Mahjar, 2021 : The following is a review of the monograph Exile and the Nation, by Afshin Marashi, which examines ideological developments reflective of the early-twentieth century encounter between Iranian intellectuals and India’s Parsi (Zoroastrian) community ...
Erik Freas
doaj +1 more source
Iranian Muslim Reformists and Contemporary Ethics: Revival of “Utilitarianism” [PDF]
İnsan & Toplum, 2018 This paper raises a moral issue for contemporary post-revolutionary Muslim intellectuals in Iran. According to traditional Islamic teachings, ethics enables people to transcend from this mundane world and offers guidance on ways to improve virtues.
Hossein Dabbagh, Soroush Dabbagh
doaj +1 more source
Literary Modernity in Late Qajar Era Press [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2023 While literary modernity in Iran had national underpinnings and was brought about by changes in the economic and political relations and infrastructures of the country, it was also influenced by the knowledge of Western literature, and Iranian ...
Mohammad Reza Haji-Agha Babaie
doaj +1 more source
Henry Corbin’s Oriental Philosophy and Iranian Nativist Ideologies
Religions, 2021 This paper aims to explore the roots of the nativist discourse among Iranian intellectuals in the 20th century prior to the Islamic Revolution, a discourse based on Eastern authenticity and the felt need for a return to Islamic, Persian, or Asian ...
Ahmad Bostani
doaj +1 more source
What happens in-between mobilizations? Building and organizing contentious politics at the University of Tehran (2007-2017) [PDF]
, 2020 This article investigates contentious politics in authoritarian contexts by looking at the case study of student activism in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Rivetti, Paola
core +4 more sources
Iranian Schools Opened in the Ottoman Period and the Education of Iranians: 1883-1912
Belleten, 2023 With developing Ottoman-Iran relations and opening of diplomatic representations, since the second half of the 19th century, two states got closer in many respects.
Eralp Yaşar Azap
doaj +1 more source
Historical Unconsciousness and the Descending Religion in Contemporary Iranshahr Thought [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2015 Almost all Iranian contemporary intellectuals have seen religion the same as European intellectuals of Enlightenment tradition to be cause of underdevelopment.
سیروس فیضی
doaj +1 more source
Intellectuals and the State in Iran
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2004 Negin Nabavi’s Intellectuals and the State in Iran comes at a time when a process of soul-searching by some Iranian intellectuals that started immediately after the triumph of Islamic revolution has now faded away, without yielding any satisfactory ...
Alireza Asgharzadeh
doaj +1 more source
THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL IDEAS UPON IRANIAN PROSE AND NON-FICTION IN THE 60S AND 70S
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2022 Following the coup d’etat of 1953 and the trauma caused by it gradually in the 60s and 70s in Iran a new subjectivity, a new vision for the Iranian subject of modernity emerged.
Vladimir MITEV
doaj +1 more source
Dēnkard III language variation and the defence of socio-religious identity in the context of Early-Islamic Iran [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will
Terribili, Gianfilippo
core +2 more sources