Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

PART ONE: OVERVIEWS

Iranian Culture and South Asia, 1500-1900

Beyond Translation: Interactions between English and Persian Poetry

Turk, Persian, and Arab: Changing Relationships between Tribes and State in Iran and along its Frontiers

PART TWO: THE SAFAVID, QAJAR, AND PAHLAVI PERIODS

The Early Safavids and Their Cultural Interactions with Surrounding States

Suspicion, Fear, and Admiration: Pre-Nineteenth-Century Iranian Views of the English and the Russians

The Quest for the Secret of Strength in Iranian Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature: Rethinking Tradition in the "Safarnameh"

Cultures of Iranianness: The Evolving Polemic of Iranian Nationalism

Foreign Education, the Women's Press, and the Discourse of Scientific Domesticity in Early-Twentieth-Century Iran

PART THREE: CULTURE IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE WORLD

International Connections of the Iranian Women's Movement

The Presentation of the "Self" and the "Other" in Postrevolutionary Iranian School Textbooks

Cinematic Exchange Relations: Iran and the West

PART FOUR: POLITICAL-CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH THE MUSLIM WORLD

The Failed Pan-Islamic Program of the Islamic Republic: Views of the Liberal Reformers of the Religious "Semi-Opposition"

Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and Anxieties

The Iranian Revolution and Changes in Islamism in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan

PART FIVE: THE POLITICS OF IRAN'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Iran's Foreign Policy: A Revolution in Transition

The Contributors

Index

Too few Americans appreciate Iran's rich culture, which has produced countless treasures and influenced the international development of literature, visual arts, religion, and cinema. Iran and the Surrounding World explores Iran's cultural development in numerous fields while illustrating that Iran and other countries-from South Asia to Europe-have mutually benefited from a vibrant cultural dialogue for many hundreds of years. -- Lee H. Hamilton, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars This volume provides fifteen stimulating articles about a part of the world Americans urgently need to know better. By placing Iran after 1500 not within its official, modern borders, but within an earlier world of porous boundaries, and a contemporary world of transnational interactions, the volume situates itself well within new trends of historical writing. The authors are among the foremost authorities writing on Iran today. -- Barbara D. Metcalf, University of California, Davis This enjoyable book covers relations with South Asia and the role of Turkic nomadic tribes, through discussions of long-term relations with the West and the cultural-political significance of the arts. Almost half the book addresses the perod since the revolution of 1979, and there are several original contributions on women's issues. -- Janet Afary, Purdue University