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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Iranian Studies
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Iran’s long history and short-term society
• Part I History and politics
• 1 Legitimacy and succession in Iranian history
• Legitimacy and succession in Europe
• Divine Grace and legitimacy
• The perfect ruler and the just ruler
• Legitimacy and rebellion
• Legitimacy in the Islamic era
• The problem of succession
• Concluding remarks
• 2 The short-term society A comparative study in the problems of long-term political and economic development in Iran
• Problems of legitimacy and succession
• The tenuous nature of ‘life and possessions’ (jan o mal)
• Problems of accumulation and development
• 3 The revolution for law A chronographic analysis of the constitutional revolution of Iran
• The discovery of law
• The emergence of politics
• Chaos
• Constitutionalism
• The nature of the revolt
• The politics of elimination
• Rejection of compromise
• Chaos, disillusionment and arbitrary rule
• 4 Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh Three lives in a lifetime
• 5 Khalil Maleki The odd intellectual out
• A note on Iranian intellectuals
• The odd intellectual
• A short biography
• Maleki’s politics
• Rejection of the conspiracy theory of politics
• Dialogue, democracy and reform
• Concluding remarks
• Appendix: Report of the arrest of Khalil Maleki, Keyhan, 5 August 1965.
• 6 The Iranian revolution at 30 The dialectic of state and society1
• Politics of elimination
• Society versus the State
• The general discontent
• The protest movement
• Revolution
• The revolution that ‘should not have happened’
• A note on developments since 1979
• Bibliography
• Part II Persian literature
• 7 Classical Persian literature Form and substance
• Forms and substance
• Qasideh
• Ghazal
• The four stars
• A brief note on prose
• Select bibliography
• 8 Sa’di’s love lyrics
• Women and youths
• Ghazals on human love
• Come in peace tonight
• I was not yet born …
• Love at the dawn of Resurrection
• Site of Kaaba
• In the beloved’s embrace
• A night of loneliness
• Farewell to the beloved
• 9 Neo-classical Persian literature Bazgasht-e Adabi in the nineteenth century
• Select bibliography
• 10 Modern Persian literature From the constitutional revolution to the revolution of 1979
• Modern and modernist literature
• Nima Yushij and modernist poetry
• Fiction and prose literature
• Jamalzadeh
• Hedayat
• Other writers
• Select bibliography
• 11 Poet-laureate Bahar in the constitutional era
• The young revolutionary poet
• Confrontation and chaos
• Bahar’s reaction to discord
• Bahar and the 1911 ‘Thermidor’
• Bahar in the Great War
• Bahar, Vosuq and the 1919 agreement
• Bahar and the 1921 coup
• A brief note on Bahar’s later years
• 12 Iraj, the poet of love and humour
• 13 Private parts and public discourses in modern Iran
• 14 Jamalzadeh’s fiction
• General Bibliography
• 15 Of the sins of Forugh Farrokhzad
• Select bibliography
• Notes
• 1 Legitimacy and succession in Iranian history
• 2 The short-term society
• 3 The revolution for law
• 4 Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh
• 5 Khalil Maleki
• 6 The Iranian revolution at 30
• 7 Classical Persian literature
• 8 Sa’di’s love lyrics
• 11 Poet-laureate Bahar in the constitutional era
• 12 Iraj, the poet of love and humour
• 13 Private parts and public discourses in modern Iran
• 14 Jamalzadeh’s fiction
• 15 Of the sins of Forugh Farrokhzad
• Index