Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography (St Antony's Series)

Mohamad Tavakoli-targhi Offers A Corrective To Recent Works On Orientalism That Focus Solely On European Scholarly Productions Without Exploring The Significance Of Native Scholars And Vernacular Scholarship To The Making Of Oriental Studies. He Brings To Light A Wealth Of Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-century Indo-persian Texts, Made 'homeless' By Subsequent Nationalist Histories And Shows How They Relate To Indo Iranian Modernity. In Doing So, He Argues, For A Radical Rewriting Of Iranian History With Profound Implications For Islamic Debates On Gender.--book Jacket. 1. Modernity, Heterotopia, And Homeless Texts -- 2. Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia -- 3. Persianate Europology -- 4. Imagining European Women -- 5. Contested Memories -- 6. Crafting National Identity -- 7. Patriotic And Matriotic Natioanlism -- 8. Postscript. Mohamad Tavakoli-targhi. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 187-209) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10 Notes on Romanization and Dates......Page 17 Modernity and heterotopia......Page 18 Discursive affinities of nationalism and Orientalism......Page 21 Homeless texts......Page 25 Decolonizing historical imagination......Page 32 A genealogy of Orientalism......Page 35 The Columbus of Oriental studies......Page 37 Jones and the affinity of languages......Page 40 Intertextuality and postcolonial historiography......Page 48 Perspectival knowledge......Page 52 Persianate voy(ag)eurs......Page 55 The anthropology of modern Europe......Page 61 Farangi women......Page 71 Comparing women......Page 78 Libertine women......Page 82 Narrative plots and the scapegoating of women......Page 87 Seeing oneself being seen......Page 91 Narrative emplotment......Page 94 Islamicating history......Page 95 Recentering Iran......Page 103 Envisaging history......Page 113 Restyling Persian......Page 121 Vatan-centered discourse......Page 130 Nationalized subjectivity......Page 133 National–public sphere......Page 135 Maternal homeland (madar-i vatan)......Page 139 Matriotic sentiments......Page 144 8 Postscript......Page 152 Notes......Page 161 Select Bibliography......Page 204 C......Page 227 F......Page 228 J......Page 229 M......Page 230 O......Page 231 S......Page 232 Z......Page 233