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City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran (Record no. 479)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781138789449
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 55.99
Form of issue BB
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Subject category code HIS026000
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Subject category code 955.72
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Setrag Manoukian
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Title City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran
Remainder of title Shiraz, History and Poetry
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Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20140321
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 260 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among history, poetry and politics, the book analyses how Shiraz came to be defined as the country’s cultural capital, and explains how Iranians have used the concept of culture as a way of thinking about themselves, their past and their relationship with the rest of the world. Weaving together a theoretical approach with extensive ethnographic research, the book suggests a model to integrate broad concerns with a nuanced analysis of Iran’s cultural traditions and practices. The author’s interdisciplinary approach sheds light on how contemporary Iranians relate to classical Persian poetry; on the relationship between expressive forms and the political imagination; and on the different ways teachers, professors, cultural managers, poets and scholars think and work. He describes how history and poetry are the two dominant modes to talk about the past, present and future of the town and demonstrates that the question of knowledge is crucial to an understanding of the political and existential dimensions of life in Iran today. This book will be a major contribution to the current effort to move away from nationalist views of Iranian history and culture, and as such will be of great interest to scholars of cultural anthropology, history, Middle Eastern studies and Iranian studies.

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