Western modernity encounters Asian tradition: national identity and nationalism in Iran
Iran and Iranians experienced an Islamic political upheaval after the Revolution of 1979, which led to national, ethnical, and religious modifications. After that process, the open-end question was raised in which course the Iranian nation will move on: western multiple modernity vs. Iranian trad...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16228/1/44876-144390-1-SM.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16228/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/ijwas/issue/view/1265 |
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| Summary: | Iran and Iranians experienced an Islamic political upheaval after the Revolution of 1979, which led
to national, ethnical, and religious modifications. After that process, the open-end question was
raised in which course the Iranian nation will move on: western multiple modernity vs. Iranian
tradition? The Iranian nation, which has a heterogeneous composition, does not differ significantly
from its neighboring nations and the region around Western, Southern and Central Asia: We only
think of the same languages, religions, and everyday social cultures that one can detect in Iran and
its surrounding area. Territorially embedded in West Asia, but bordering Central and South Asia,
Iran is bounded and equally populated by Turkish, Russian, Arab, Pakistani, Persian-Afghan and
other nations. Only in a balanced - i.e. democratic, civic and inclusive relationship - Iran can assert
itself in the long-term economically, culturally and religiously with its many ethnicities, languages
and religions, and neighbors. This article seeks the question what and how the Iranian nation
displayed superiority, say nationalism: Especially, the case of representation, (re-)construction of
identity through different politicians active in cultural affairs or just diplomats are matters of fact in
this article. The work and reflections of politicians and diplomats were to this point parameters of
inclusion and exclusion to and in the Iranian nation. Finally, the following text centers on the last
20th and the current 21st century. |
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