Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the Narratives of the Enlightenment

Ali Ansari is professor of Iranian history and founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, as well as senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and president of the British Institute of Persian Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including "The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran." "

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• Introduction 1Ali M Ansari1 Iran’s Dialectic of the Enlightenment: Notes on Constitutional Experience and Conflicting Narratives of Modernity 15Ali Gheissari2 From Narrating History to Constructing Memory: The Role of Photography in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution 48Elahe Helbig3 The Enlightenment and Historical Difference: The Case of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution 76Kamran Matin4 Shrinking Borders and Expanding Vocabularies: Translation and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 98Milad Odabaei5 The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the influence of Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani’s Political Thought 116Pejman Abdolmohammadi6 Realism, Nationalism and Criticism: Iranian Enlightenment and the Philosophy of Literature in Mirza Fatali Akhundzade’s Works 129Salour Evaz Malayeri7 “To mean or not to mean?” as the underlying question of Western-inspired counter-Enlightenment discourse in Iran 149Urs Goesken8 In Search of the Secret Center in Constitutional Tabriz 170Evan Siegel9 Early Translations of Modern European Philosophy: On the Significance of an Under-Researched Phenomenon for the Study of Modern Iranian Intellectual History 200Roman Seidel10 Looking Back at Mashrutih: Late Pahlavi Narratives on the Constitutional Revolution 223Siavush Randjbar-DaemiContributors 239Index 243