Iran's Constitutional Revolution : Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements - H. E. Chehabi and Vanessa Martin Table of Contents Contributors A Note on Transliteration and Dates Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms Introduction - Vanessa Martin I - HISTORIOGRAPHY 1. Whose Revolution? Stakeholders and Stories of the 'Constitutional Movement' in Iran, 1905-1911 - Joanna de Groot 2. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution as lieu(x) de memoire: Sattar Khan - Anja Pistor-Hatam 3. Introducing Georgian Sources for the Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) - Iago Gocheleishvili II - STATE-BUILDING 4. Constitutional Rights and the Development of Civil Law in Iran, 1907-1941 - Ali Gheissari 5. The Constitutional Revolution, Popular Politics and State-Building in Iran - Stephanie Cronin 6. Municipalities and Constitutionalism in Iran - Reza Mokhtari Esfahani III - CLASS, TRIBE, MYSTICS AND MINORITIES: IDEOLOGY AND BELIEF 7. Merchants, Class Identification Process and Constitutionalism - Soheila Torabi Farsani 8. Tribes of the Homeland: The Bakhtiyari in the Revolutionary Press - Arash Khazeni 9. Revolution and a High Ranking Sufi: Zahir al-Dowleh's Contribution to the Constitutional Movement - Lloyd Ridgeon 10. The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: Imami Shiite Law and Iran's Constitutional Revolution - Daniel Tsadik IV - INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC INITIATIVES: PUBLIC AWAKENING 11. The Rowshanfekr in the Constitutional Period: an Overview - Mangol Bayat 12. Crafting Constitutionalism: An Iranian Secular Modernist Project - Nahid Mozaffari 13. Readership, the Press and the Public Sphere in the First Constitutional Era - Negin Nabavi 14. Writing in Tehran: The First Freedom of Press Law - Pardis Minuchehr 15. Constitutional Revolution and Persian Dramatic Works: An Observation on Social Relations Criticism in the Plays of the Constitutional Era (1906-1911) - Ali Miransari 16. National Identity and Photographs of the Constitutional Revolution - Reza Sheikh V - TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 17. Mashrutiyat, Me?rutiyet, and Beyond: Intellectuals and the Constitutional Revolutions of 1905-12 - Charles Kurzman 18. Crafting Constitutional Narratives: Iranian and Young Turk Solidarity 1907-1909 - Farzin Vejdani 19. Constitutionalists Sans Frontieres: Iranian Constitutionalism and its Asian Connections - Touraj Atabaki 20. Mashruteh and al-Nahda: The Iranian Constitutional Revolution in the Iranian Diaspora Press of Egypt and in Arab Reformist Periodicals - Kamran Rastegar 21. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution as Reported in the Chinese Press - Yidan Wang 22. Japan and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution - Michael Penn Epilogue The Poetry of the Constitutional Revolution - Homa Katouzian Index