Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made 'homeless' by subsequent nationalist histories and shows how they relate to Indo-Iranian modernity. In doing so, he argues for a radical rewriting of Iranian history with profound implications for Islamic debates on gender.

Author: M. Tavakoli-Targhi
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/10/2001
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.68w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780333949221

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2002 pg. 2022

About the Author
MOHAMAD TAVAKOLI-TARGHI is Associate Professor of Historiography and Middle Eastern History at the Illinois State University. His publications have appeared in Radical America, Iranian Studies, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.