Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
NMC 373Y: Turkey and Iran in the Twentieth Century
2003-2004; Bancroft 329
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Visiting Associate Professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
IV. Required Readings
Course packet and on-linereadings listed below.
Preliminary Reading and Discussion ScheduleFall 2003
Week 1
September 8 / Introduction
Bernard Lewis, "Why Turkey Is the only Muslim Democracy," The Middle East Quarterly 1:1 (March 1994).
François Skvor, “Iran, Turkey : democratic changes,” Transatlantically Incorrect (2003).
Week 2
September 15 / What is a Nation?
Stuart Hall, "The Question of Cultural Identity," in Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, ed. Stuart Hall and et. al. (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 595-634.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1991), 1-46.
Eric Hobsbawm, "Introduction: Inventing Traditions," in The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 1-14.
Partha Chatterjee, "Whose Imagined Community," in The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), 3-13.
Benedict Anderson, "Western Nationalism and Eastern Nationalism," New Left Review 9 (May-June 2001).Week 3: Imagined Communities
Week 3
September 22 / Imagined Communities
L. Carl Brown, "The Classical Eastern Question, 1774-1923," in International Politics and the Middle East: Old Rules, Dangerous Games (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 21-63.
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Refashioning Iran: Language and Culture During the Constitutional Revolution," Iranian Studies 23: 1-4 (1990), 77-101.
Week 4
September 29 / Turkish Secularism
N. Berkes, "Historical Background of Turkish Secularism," in Islam and the West, ed. Richard Frye (The Hague: Mouton & Co, 1956), 41-68.
Niyazi Berkes. "Foundations of a Secular State", in The Development of Secularism in Turkey (Montreal: McGill University Press, Montreal, 1964), 89-135.
Tansu Ciller: "Secularism is an Indispensable Principle for Turkey," The Middle East Quarterly II:2 (Jun3 1995),
Week 4
October 6 / Iranian and Turkish Nationalisms
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Going Public: Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland in Iranian Nationalist Discourses" Strategires 13: 2 (2000), 175-200.
Ayse Kadioglu, "The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism and the Construction of Official Identity," Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 32, no. 2 (April 1996)
Ziya Gökalp, "The Programme of Turkism: What is Turkism?," in Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization, 284-313.
Selim Deringil, "The Invention of Tradition as Public Image in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808-1908," Comparative Study of Society and History (1993), 3-29.
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Religion and Irreligion in Early Iranian Nationalism
Nikki R. Keddie
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 4, No. 3. (Apr., 1962), pp. 265-295.
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Week 5
October 13 / Constitutional Revolutions
Nader Sohrabi, Historicizing Revolutions: Constitutional Revolutions in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, and Russia, 1905-1908, The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 100, No. 6. (May, 1995), pp. 1383-1447.
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Ervand Abrahamian, The Causes of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3. (Aug., 1979), pp. 381-414.
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.The Revolutionary Character of the Iranian Ulama: Wishful Thinking or Reality?
Willem M. Floor
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 12, No. 4. (Dec., 1980), pp. 501-524.
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Observations on Sources for the Study of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Iranian History
Hafez F. Farmayan
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1. (Jan., 1974), pp. 32-49.
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Religion and Irreligion in Early Iranian Nationalism
Nikki R. Keddie
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 4, No. 3. (Apr., 1962), pp. 265-295.
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Nikki R. Keddie, British Policy and the Iranian Opposition 1901-1907, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 39, No. 3. (Sep., 1967), pp. 266-282.
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The Persia Committee and the Constitutional Revolution in Iran
Mansour Bonakdarian
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2. (1991), pp. 186-207.
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Ervand Abrahamian, Oriental Despotism: The Case of Qajar Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1. (Jan., 1974), pp. 3-31.
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Mansour Bonakdarian, Iranian Constitutional Exiles and British Foreign-Policy Dissenters, 1908-9, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2. (May, 1995), pp. 175-191.
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Janet Afary, Peasant Rebellions of the Caspian Region during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1909, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2. (May, 1991), pp. 137-161.
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Nikki Keddie, “Iran: Understanding the Enigma: A Historians’ View,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, 2:3 (September 1998).
Bernard Lewis, “The Middle East, Westernized Despite Itself” Middle East Quarterly, III:1 (March 1996),
Juan R.I. Cole, “Iranian Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 24 (February 1992):1-26.
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Raiding, Reaction and Rivalry: The Shahsevan Tribes in the Constitutional Period
Richard Tapper
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 49, No. 3. (1986), pp. 508-531.
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The Strengths and Weaknesses of Iran's Populist Alliance: A Class Analysis of the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911
John Foran
Theory and Society, Vol. 20, No. 6. (Dec., 1991), pp. 795-823.
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Week 6
October 20 / 6.
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H. W. Bailey
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 21, No. 1/3. (1958), pp. 522-545.
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Week 7
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hael P. Zirinsky, Imperial Power and Dictatorship: Britain and the Rise of Reza Shah, 1921-1926, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 24, No. 4. (Nov., 1992), pp. 639-663.
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Homa Katouzian, The Campaign against the Anglo-Iranian Agreement of 1919, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1. (May, 1998), pp. 5-46.
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Vanessa Martin, Mudarris, Republicanism and the Rise to Power of Riza Khan, Sardar-i Sipah, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2. (1994), pp. 199-210.
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Week 8
November 3
Week 9
November10
Week 10
November 17
Week 11
November 24
Week 12
ODecember 1
Preliminary Reading and Discussion Schedule
Spring 2004
January 5 / The Politics of Scapegoating
Michael P. Zirinsky, Blood, Power, and Hypocrisy: The Murder of Robert Imbrie and American Relations with Pahlavi Iran, 1924, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3. (Aug., 1986), pp. 275-292.
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Denis MacEoin, The Baha'is of Iran: The Roots of Controversy, Bulletin (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), Vol. 14, No. 1. (1987), pp. 75-83.
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Christopher de Bellaigue, "Turkey's Hidden Past," The New York Review of Books, Volume 48, Number 4 · March 8, 2001.
James R. Russell, Massacres of the Armenians
Paul Adalian, Armenian Genocide
January 12 / Language and Literature
John R. Perry, Language Reform in Turkey and Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Aug., 1985), pp. 295-311.
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Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Ahmad Kasravi and The Controversy over Persian Poetry. 2. The Debate on Persian Poetry between Kasravi and His Opponents, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3. (Aug., 1981), pp. 311-327.
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Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Ahmad Kasravi and the Controversy over Persian Poetry. 1. Kasravi's Analysis of Persian Poetry, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2. (Apr., 1973), pp. 190-203.
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Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Western Influence in Contemporary Persian: A General View, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 29, No. 1. (1966), pp. 79-96.
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January 17 / Religion and State
Vanessa Martin , Religion and State in Khumaini's "Kashf al-asrar," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 56, No. 1. (1993), pp. 34-45.
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Mohammad H. Faghfoory, The Ulama-State Relations in Iran: 1921-1941, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4. (Nov., 1987), pp. 413-432.
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Ervand Abrahamian, Communism and Communalism in Iran: The Tudah and the Firqah-I Dimukrat, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4. (Oct., 1970), pp. 291-316.
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Binnaz Toprak, Religion and State in Turkey
January 19 / Mossadeq and Oil Nationalization
Iran-U.S. Relations: A Chronology
The Coup in Iran: From the Archives
The CIA in Iran
Overthrow of Premier Mossadegh of Iran, November 1952-August 1953
CIA Report of the Coup in Iran - Uncensored!
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Case (Jurisdiction), United Kingdom v. Iran. (in Judicial Decisions)
The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 46, No. 4. (Oct., 1952), pp. 737-751.
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January 26 / The Baghdad Pact
Baghdad Pact; February 4, 1955
Soviet Reaction to the Baghdad Pact, 1955
Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairsto Permanent Representative to North Atlantic Council, Baghdad Pact
Baghdad Pact (in International Organizations: Summary of Activities; Political and Regional Organizations), International Organization, Vol. 12, No. 2. (Spring, 1958), pp. 230-232.
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February 2 / The White Revolution
Rouhollah K. Ramazani, Iran's 'White Revolution': A Study in Political Development, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2. (Apr., 1974), pp. 124-139.
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Ali Mirsepassi-Ashtiani, The Crisis of Secular Politics and the Rise of Political Islam in Iran, Social Text, No. 38. (Spring, 1994), pp. 51-84.
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Amir Hassanpour, The Kurdish Experience, Middle East Report, No. 189, The Kurdish Experience. (Jul. - Aug., 1994), pp. 2-7+23.
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Akbar Aghajanian, Ethnic Inequality in Iran: An Overview, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2. (May, 1983), pp. 211-224.
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Kemal H. Karpat, The Military and Politics in Turkey, 1960-64: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of a Revolution, The American Historical Review, Vol. 75, No. 6. (Oct., 1970), pp. 1654-1683.
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February 9 / The RentierState
Hootan Shambayati, The Rentier State, Interest Groups, and the Paradox of Autonomy: State and Business in Turkey and Iran, Comparative Politics, Vol. 26, No. 3. (Apr., 1994), pp. 307-331.
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Ervand Abrahamian, The Guerrilla Movement in Iran, 1963-1977, MERIP Reports, No. 86, The Left Forces in Iran. (Mar. - Apr., 1980), pp. 3-15.
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M. H. Pesaran, The System of Dependent Capitalism in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4. (Nov., 1982), pp. 501-522.
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February 23 / The Iranian Revolution of 1979
Said Amir Arjomand, Iran's Islamic Revolution in Comparative Perspective, World Politics, Vol. 38, No. 3. (Apr., 1986), pp. 383-414.
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Ervand Abrahamian, Structural Causes of the Iranian Revolution, MERIP Reports, No.87, Iran's Revolution: The Rural Dimension. (May, 1980), pp. 21-26.
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R. K. Ramazani, Iran's Revolution: Patterns, Problems and Prospects, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 56, No. 3. (Summer, 1980), pp. 443-457.
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Shaul Bakhash, Iran, The American Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 5. (Dec., 1991), pp. 1479-1496.
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Nikki R. Keddie, Iranian Revolutions in Comparative Perspective, The American Historical Review, Vol. 88, No. 3. (Jun., 1983), pp. 579-598.
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Gene Burns, Ideology, Culture, and Ambiguity: The Revolutionary Process in Iran, Theory and Society, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Jun., 1996), pp. 349-388.
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March 1 / Islamism and Militarism
Required Readings:
Nilufer Narli, The Rise of the Islamist Movement in Turkey
Feroz Ahmad, Military Intervention and the Crisis in Turkey, MERIP Reports, No.93, Turkey: The Generals Take Over. (Jan., 1981), pp. 5-24.
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Bahram Rajaee, "September 11 and the Iranian Puzzel"
Abdelilah Bouasria, "Symbols on the Talk: Baudrillard, Habermas and September 11"
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Ben Lombardi, Turkey-The Return of the Reluctant Generals? Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 112, No. 2. (Summer, 1997), pp. 191-215.
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James Piscatori, The Rushdie Affair and the Politics of Ambiguity (in Beyond East-West Relations), International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 66, No. 4, Seventieth Anniversary Issue. (Oct., 1990), pp. 767-789.
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G. Hossein Razi, The Nexus of Legitimacy and Performance: The Lessons of the Iranian Revolution, Comparative Politics, Vol. 19, No. 4. (Jul., 1987), pp. 453-469.
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March 8 / Revolution and Women
Margot Badran, Turkey- Women :Two Heads are Better Than One
Elham Gheytanchi, Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the crisis of civil society
Katajun Amirpur, Islamic Feminism in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Shahrzad Mojab, Theorizing the Politics of 'lslamic Feminism'
Haideh Moqeisi, Women, modernity and political Islam
Val Moghadam, Islamic Feminism And Its Discontents: Notes On A Debate
Shahla Lahiji, Portrayal of Women in Iranian Cinema: An historical overview
Kamran Talattof, Iranian Women's Literature: From Pre-Revolutionary Social Discourse to Post-Revolutionary Feminism (in The Politics of Cultural Expression), International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4. (Nov., 1997), pp. 531-558.
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Shiva Balaghi, An Historical Review
March 15 /
The Hostage Crisis in Iran
The Iran Hostage Crisis: Major Events (Timeline)
Robert C. Ode, Excerpts from an Iran Hostage's Diary
Edward W. Said, Irangate: A Many-Sided Crisis, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4. (Summer, 1987), pp. 27-49.
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The Iran Hostage Crisis: Bibliography
March 22 / Conference Preparation
March 23 / Middle East History and Theory Conference
Orientalism and Occidentalism
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Bancroft 200, 4 Bancroft Ave
March 29
Mark Juergensmeyer, The New ReligiousState, Comparative Politics, Vol. 27, No. 4. (Jul., 1995), pp. 379-391.
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John Calabrese, Turkey and Iran: Limits of a Stable Relationship, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1. (May, 1998), pp. 75-94.
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Richard H. Pfaff, Disengagement from Traditionalism in Turkey and Iran, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1. (Mar., 1963), pp. 79-98.
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C. G. Smith, The Emergence of the Middle East, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 3, The Middle East. (Jul., 1968), pp. 3-17.
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Stephen M. Walt, Testing Theories of Alliance Formation: The Case of Southwest Asia, International Organization, Vol. 42, No. 2. (Spring, 1988), pp. 275-316.
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William R. Thompson, Delineating Regional Subsystems: Visit Networks and the Middle Eastern Case, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2. (May, 1981), pp. 213-235.
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McLellan, Who Fathered Containment?: A Discussion, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2. (Jun., 1973), pp. 205-226.
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John C. Campbell, The Soviet Union and the Middle East: "In the General Direction of the Persian Gulf". Part I, Russian Review, Vol. 29, No. 2. (Apr., 1970), pp. 143-153.
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Fred Halliday, The Arc of Crisis and the New Cold War, MERIP Reports, No. 100/101, Special Anniversary Issue. (Oct. - Dec., 1981), pp. 14-25.
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Cathy Tackney, Dealing Arms in the Middle East. Part I: History and Strategic Considerations, MERIP Reports, No. 8. (Mar. - Apr., 1972), pp. 3-14.
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Week 4: Iranian and Turkish Nationalisms
October 6
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Going Public: Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland in Iranian Nationalist Discourses" Strategires 13: 2 (2000), 175-200.
Ayse Kadioglu, "The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism and the Construction of Official Identity," Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 32, no. 2 (April 1996).
Week 5: Constitutional Revolutions
October 13
Nikki Keddie, “Iran: Understanding the Enigma: A Historians’ View,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, 2:3 (September 1998).
Bernard Lewis, “The Middle East, Westernized Despite Itself,” Middle East Quarterly, III:1 (March 1996).
Juan R.I. Cole, “Iranian Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 24 (February 1992):1-26.
Susynne M. McElrone, “Nineteenth-century Qajar women in the public sphere, an alternative view on the roots of Iranian women’s activism.”
Majid Tehranian, “Disenchanted Worlds: Secularization and Democratization in the Middle East,” in Democracy and Peace in the Middle East (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2000).
Week 6:Redressing Men and Women
October 20
Türkkaya Ataöv, "Book Review: The Turkish Revolution / Muhammed Sadeq" PERCEPTIONS: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, III: 1(March-May 1998).
Süleyman Demi'rel, The Compatibility of Islam, Democracy and Secularism," PERCEPTIONS: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, II: 2 (June-August 1997).
Ziya Gökalp, "The Programme of Turkism: What is Turkism?," in Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization, 284-313.
Selim Deringil, "The Invention of Tradition as Public Image in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808-1908," Comparative Study of Society and History (1993).
The Middle East Journal , Volume 53, Number 2, Spring 1999.
Copyright the Middle East Institute, 1999
TWENTY YEARS OF ISLAMIC POLITICS
An Historical Review
by SHIVA BALAGHI, Ph.D.
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Middle East Policy Council
Volume VIII, December 2001, Number 4
EXCERPT: Women in Iran: An Online Discussion
Struggles and Brutality in Iran:
the fundamentalist backlash against women's progress
by Lynette J. Dumble
Family Law, IranicaShirin Ebadi, the Winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize
The recognition of the work of women and human rights activists in Islam
By
Farhang Jahanpour, PhD
University of Cambridge
October 17, 2003
REPORT ON NATIONAL MACHINERIES
During the Pahlavi Regime
Mehrdad Darvishpour, “Islamic feminism”: compromise or challenge to feminism?
Parvin Darabi, My Testimony, Why I am not a Muslim
Ruh Allah Khumayni, “In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful”
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Cultural Preconceptions of Time: Can We Use Operational Time to Meddle in God's Time? (in Establishing the Cultural Context)
Siamak Movahedi
Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 27, No. 3. (Jul., 1985), pp. 385-400.
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Personal Author Fatemi-Dezfoli, Fatemeh, 1963-
Title Neighbors : a comparative study on gender access to education, employment and politics between Iran and Turkey \ by Fatemeh Fatemi-Dezfoli.
Dissertation note Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2003
Publication info 2003.
Physical descrip xi, 126 leaves. :bill., tables.
Bibliography note Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126)
Subject Women--Turkey--Social aspects.
Subject Women--Iran--Social aspects.
Subject Sex differences in education--Turkey.
Subject Sex differences in education--Iran.
Subject Sex discrimination--Turkey.
Subject Sex discrimination--Iran.
Subject Sex role--Turkey.
Subject Sex role--Iran.
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