Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940

by Afshin Marashi

Book Overview

When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred kingship. By 1941, when Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi came to power, his claim to authority as the Shah of Iran was infused with the language of modern nationalism. In short, between roughly 1870 and 1940, Iran's traditional monarchy was forged into a modern nation-state.

In Nationalizing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988207
• ISBN13: 9780295988207
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"