Contesting the Iranian Revolution (Hardcover)

Pouya Alimagham

ISBN 10: 1108475442 / ISBN 13: 9781108475440

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020

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Hardcover. Most observers of Iran viewed the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a 'failed revolution', with many Iranians and those in neighbouring Arab countries agreeing. In Contesting the Iranian Revolution, however, Pouya Alimagham re-examines this evaluation, deconstructing the conventional win-lose binary interpretations in a way which underscores the subtle but important victories on the ground, and reveals how Iran's modern history imbues those triumphs with consequential meaning. Focusing on the men and women who made this dynamic history, and who exist at the centre of these contentious politics, this 'history from below' brings to the fore the post-Islamist discursive assault on the government's symbols of legitimation. From powerful symbols rooted in Shiite Islam, Palestinian liberation, and the Iranian Revolution, Alimagham harnesses the wider history of Iran and the Middle East to highlight how activists contested the Islamic Republic's legitimacy to its very core. Challenging binary interpretations of Iran's Green Uprisings of 2009 as a 'failed revolution', this dynamic history of Iran and the Middle East focuses on the men and women who existed at the centre of these contentious politics, with wider insights into US foreign policy, political Islam and revolutionary politics. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Contesting the Iranian Revolution (Hardcover)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1108475442
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781108475440
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

Examines the last forty years of Iranian and Middle-Eastern history through the prism of the Green Uprisings of 2009.

À propos de l?auteur

Pouya Alimagham is Lecturer and historian of the Middle East at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Receiving his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, his thesis on which this book is based was awarded the Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award by the Association for Iranian Studies in 2016.