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This book examines what it means to be Iranian and how Iranian national identity is constructed; how Islam, Iran's pre-Islamic culture, and relations with the West are dealt with and determining what is authentic and legitimate.
Defining Iran presents a new and revealing analysis of the way in which Iranian political discourses compete with each other. Deconstructing the intellectual roots and development of Iranian nationalism through the twentieth century, Shabnam Holliday demonstrates how Iran's heri…