Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940

Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940
ISBN-10
0295988207
ISBN-13
9780295988207
Category
History
Pages
204
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Ewha Womans University Press
Author
Afshin Marashi

Description

When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred kingship. By 1941, when Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi came to power, his claim to authority as the Shah of Iran was infused with the language of modern nationalism. In short, between roughly 1870 and 1940, Iran's traditional monarchy was forged into a modern nation-state.

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