Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Transliteration ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. Overviews
7. 1/ Iranian Culture and South Asia 1500-1900 15
8. 2 / Beyond Translation: Interactions between English and Persian Poetry 36
9. 3 / Turk, Persian, and Arab: Changing Relationships between Tribes and State in Iran and along Its Frontiers 61
10. Part II. The Safavid, Qajar, and Pahlavi Periods
11. 4 / The Early Safavids and Their Cultural Interactions with Surrounding States 89
12. 5/ Suspicion, Fear, and Admiration: Pre-Nineteenth-Century Iranian Views of the English and the Russians 121
13. 6 / The Quest for the Secret of Strength in Iranian Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature: Rethinking Tradition in the Safarnameh 146
14. 7 / Cultures of Iranianness: The Evolving Polemic of Iranian Nationalism 162
15. 8/ Foreign Education, the Women's Press, and the Discourse of Scientific Domesticity in Early-Twentieth-Century Iran 182
16. Part III. Culture in the Islamic Republic in Relation to the World
17. 9 / International Connections of the Iranian Women's Movement 205
18. 10 / The Presentation of the "Self» and the "Other" in Postrevolutionary Iranian School Textbooks 232
19. 11 / Cinematic Exchange Relations: Iran and the West 254
20. Part IV . Political-Cultural Relations with the Muslim World
21. 12 / The Failed Pan-Islamic Program of the Islamic Republic: Views of the Liberal Reformers of the Religious "Semi-Opposition" 281
22. 13 / Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and Anxieties 305
23. 14 / The Iranian Revolution and Changes in Islamism in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan 327
24. Part V. The Politics of Iran's International Relations
25. 15 / Iran's Foreign Policy: A Revolution in Transition 355
26. The Contributors 375
27. Index 379