Modern History of Iran

Bu çalışma, özel anlamda Muhammet Rıza Şah döneminde dinî yapıların eğitim alanındaki faaliyetlerine odaklansa da genel hatlarıyla modernleşme zemini üzerinde İran’ın eğitim tarihini mercek altına almaktadır. Modern dönemlere giriş yapmadan önce eğitim alanı tıpkı Osmanlı’da olduğu gibi İran’da da ulemaya özgü bir alan olma özelliği göstermekteydi.
Modernleşmenin en belirgin etkisi olarak kendisini gösterdiği eğitim alanında yaşanmaya başlayan dönüşüm ise şüphesiz ulemanın aleyhine bir durumdu. Dolayısıyla ulemanın bu gelişmeye karşı tepkisi oldukça sert olmuştur. Fakat süreç içerisinde yaşanan bu dönüşümün gerekliliği ve ardından faydasını fark eden dinî yapılar, kaçınılmaz olarak kendilerini bu yeni duruma uyarlama çabasına düşmüştür. Çalışmanın temel tezini de çatışmadan uzlaşıya dönüşen bu süreç oluşturmaktadır.

As one of the most prominent intellectuals of the pre-revolutionary era, Jalal Ale Ahmad (1923-1969) had left a lasting legacy in his homeland Iran and beyond. After his passing, Ale Ahmad has steadily been subjected to various post-mortem inquiries, debates and oftentimes controversies. Throughout The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Ale Ahmad, Hamid Dabashi offers a critical appraisal of Ale Ahmad's life and writings. He predicates this appraisal on both his perceptive insights and comprehensive research.

In this chapter I shall first sketch the intellectual biography of Soroush and then elucidate his theory of revelation; I shall then argue that his conception of revelation has a forerunner in the positions of some Mu'tazili theologians. This will be followed by my brief philosophical critique of his theory of revelation. Finally, I shall outline some of the implications of this theory of revelation for secular law and science, as well as its implications for prophetology.

Cities and Trade: Consul Abbott on the Economy and Society of Iran, 1847-1866, edited with an Introduction by Abbas Amanat (Oxford Oriental Monographs no. 5, London: Ithaca Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University, 1983).
In the middle decades of the 19th century Iran experienced major changes in its economy and foreign trade. Keith Edward Abbott, the British consul in Tehran and Tabriz, traveled throughout Iran and produced a number of unique reports pertaining to the geography, demography, economy, trade, finance and social life of towns and villages of Iran. The reports produced in this volume are prefaced by a comprehensive introduction by the editor examining Keith Abbott and Anglo-Iranian economic relations, important features of these reports and variety of studies and primary sources for the study of economic and social history of Iran in the Qajar period.

In this article I have looked at the National Association of Music in the 1940's in Iran and the question of Nationalism. I have looked at how national association of music responded to Iran's question of sovereignty and the questions of left politics and the second world war. A complete and revised version of this will be published in future.

This was a work from my thesis titled cultural history of Iranian Vocal Music During the Pahlavi Period. In this article, I have argued for the cultural history and history of listening in modern Iran. I am also critically - though implicitly- looking at the ideological assumptions around music of the Pahlavi period.

This essay (in italian) analyzes a specific event in the city of Shiraz in 1917 to reflect on the intersections of several forms of domination. Examining a public assembly summoned to respond to famine in the city, the essay highlights the emergence of a concern with politics as publicness, considering both the verbal transcript of the assembly and the accounts found in the British Consulate. At the intersection of emergency, accountability and colonialism, these forms of domination where to structure Iranian society for many decades to come.

The article deals with the Soviet policy towards the former tsarist concessions
in Iran in 1921-27. Despite the renunciation of the former tsarist
concessions in Iran, the Soviet leadership de facto tried to control the
disposal of the strategically most important of them: either through legal
instruments or by force. The analysis of the existing sources on the problem
demonstrates that at the heart of the policy there were the strategic
interests of the Soviet state. The interests were related to the security of
the Soviet southern borders, primarily in the Caspian region. The author
points out that Moscow was ready to allow the activities of foreign entrepreneurs
near its southern borders in exchange for the prospect of
improving the international position of the Soviet state. Moscow’s position
was influenced by political processes in Iran and the USSR itself. Accordingly,
the Soviet policy towards the former tsarist concessions after the
conclusion of the Soviet-Iranian treaty of 1921 has evolved from denying
Tehran’s demands to seeking mutually acceptable solutions.
Keywords: Iran, USSR, Soviet-Iranian relations, concessions, Soviet
diplomacy, Soviet concession policy, Caspian region.