Building Iran

Author : Talinn Grigor
Publisher : Fastprint Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 193477278X

Get Book

Building Iran by Talinn Grigor Pdf

Revolution and tradition are two sides of the same coin in Talinn Grigor's book on Iranian architecture. It starts in 1925 after Reza Pahlavi seized control of the country, but it arcs back to Ancient and Medieval Persia. Not that the government was rejecting modernity. IT instead promoted a reconstruction of the past that would aid efforts to make modern Iran an independent nation with an irrefutable claim to existence and power. Prodigious archival research informs Grigor's account of the excavations and discoveries Iranian authorities used to construct monuments to national heroes like Omar Khayyam, an important mathematician and astronomer of the 11th century as well as the author of the 'Rubauyat'. Grigor also brings immense knowledge to her lively discussions of the modern idiom integrated into such retrospective monuments and buildings. This book is the first in English to study 20th century Iranian architecture within the historical contexts that shaped its from and significance. The corpus of photographs will help the many readers unfamiliar with the architectural riches of Iran. Current turbulence and misunderstanding with the Middle East highlight the important of Grigor's book. ILLUSTRATIONS: 158

Author : Mehrdad M. Hejazi
Publisher : Computational Mechanics
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015049976965

Get Book

Historical Buildings of Iran by Mehrdad M. Hejazi Pdf

Auth : University of London.

Author : Ḥabīb Allāh Āyat Allāhī,Habibollah Ayatollahi
Publisher : Alhoda UK
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9649449140

Get Book

The Book of Iran by Ḥabīb Allāh Āyat Allāhī,Habibollah Ayatollahi Pdf

Author : Karen Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521867134

Get Book

Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Reports: Volume 36, 2000-2002 by Karen Lee Pdf

The only complete and fully indexed reports of the Tribunal's decisions between 2000 and 2002.

Author : United States Operations Mission to Iran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Technical assistance, American
ISBN : UCBK:C003133857

Get Book

Iran, Building for Tomorrow by United States Operations Mission to Iran Pdf

Author : Ali Gheissari,Vali Nasr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195396966

Get Book

Democracy in Iran by Ali Gheissari,Vali Nasr Pdf

Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for the safety of the global community. President George W. Bush labeled it part of the "Axis ofEvil," and rails against the country's authoritarian leadership. Yet as Bush trumpets the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East, few note that Iran has one of the longest-running experiences with democracy in the region. In this book, Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr look at the political history of Iran in the modern era, and offer an in-depth analysis of the prospects for democracy to flourish there. After having produced the only successful Islamist challenge to the state, a revolution, and an Islamic Republic, Iranis now poised to produce a genuine and indigenous democratic movement in the Muslim world. Democracy in Iran is neither a sudden development nor a western import, Gheissari and Nasr argue. The concept of democracy in Iran today may appear to be a reaction to authoritarianism, but it is an old ideawith a complex history, one that is tightly interwoven with the main forces that have shaped Iranian society and politics, institutions, identities, and interests. Indeed, the demand for democracy first surfaced in Iran a century ago at the end of the Qajar period, and helped produce Iran'ssurprisingly liberal first constitution in 1906. Gheissari and Nasr seek to understand why democracy failed to grow roots and lost ground to an autocratic Iranian state. Why was democracy absent from the ideological debates of the 1960s and 1970s? Most important, why has it now become a powerfulsocial, political, and intellectual force? How have modernization, social change, economic growth, and the experience of the revolution converged to make this possible?Gheissari and Nasr trace the fortunes of the democratic ideal from the inchoate demands for rule of law and constitutionalism of a century ago to today's calls for individual rights and civil liberties. In the process they provide not just a fresh look at Iran's politics but also a new understandingof the way in which democracy can develop in a Muslim country.

Author : Mark Hitchcock
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781590527641

Get Book

Iran by Mark Hitchcock Pdf

Discusses biblical prophecies concerning Persia and the end of the world, and describes the potential for nuclear jihad and an invasion of Israel by Russia and Iran.

Author : Anoushiravan Ehteshami
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351985444

Get Book

Iran by Anoushiravan Ehteshami Pdf

Having been ruled, more or less continuously, by a range of monarchical dynasties for three millennia, the end of the monarchy in Iran was relatively sudden, taking place in two short years. Since then, Iran has gone through tumultuous change, yet is still apparently caught in a cycle of transition. Iran has now created a complex but unique and non-transferrable system of government, but the question to be asked is whether the Islamic republic has lived up to its founding expectations, serving the Iranian people and helping them to realize their aspirations. This book is the first comprehensive analytical study of the forces which have been shaping and changing modern Iran and its relations with the rest of the world. It looks at the roots of the 1979 revolution and the forces unleashed during the modernization process under the Pahlavi monarchy. Applying a range of theoretical approaches to understanding the Islamic republic’s neo-authoritarian political system, Anoushiravan Ehteshami reflects on how the country’s new elite emerged and how these new political forces have changed Iran, the stresses on its political system, the forces shaping the country’s political economy, and the Islamic republic’s international relations. As some of Iran's leaders appear to crave permanent revolution as their means of staying in power, this book argues that the struggle for the soul of the Islamic Republic has mired the country in a cycle of change: Constant reform and transition. The republic finds itself stuck in transition. Written in a clear and insightful manner, this book provides an unparalleled analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a major regional actor and gives fresh insights into the political workings of the world’s only Shia, and revolutionary, Islamic republic. It will be of great importance to students and scholars of Middle East Politics and International Relations, as well as the policy community whose gaze is never too far from this unique country.

Author : Alireza Jafarzadeh
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230610880

Get Book

The Iran Threat by Alireza Jafarzadeh Pdf

From the controversial expert who brought Iran's nuclear program to the attention of the world in 2002 comes a searing exposé of the inner workings and plans of Iran's mullahs. With access to dissident groups inside Iran, Alireza Jafarzadeh traces President Ahmadinejad's radical roots and involvement in terror attacks to his impact on Iran's weapons program. He reveals new details on Iran's meddling in Iraq and its broader goals for the future of the Middle East. This is the most authoritative account to date of the looming threat Iran poses to the United States and the Gulf region. Readers will learn for the first time: *President Ahmadinejad's radical past as a feared torturer of political prisoners and his zealous mission to deliver the regime its first nuclear bomb *The chilling trend of the military's increasing control of the nuclear program *How Ahmadinejad was handpicked by Iran's mullahs to help create an Islamic Republic in Iraq *The latest covert actions to bury nuclear facilities in tunnels *The story of the front companies Iran used to buy its nuclear technology undetected *The author's original and insightful policy options to end the Iranian threat

Author : Hooshang Amirahmadi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857722584

Get Book

The Political Economy of Iran Under the Qajars by Hooshang Amirahmadi Pdf

The political economy of Iran underwent the fundamental transition from feudalism to modernity from the early 19th to the 20th century: a period which was a vital watershed in Iran's historical development. This book provides a critical analysis of Iran's economic, social and political development and shows how the path to modernity, far from smooth, was hindered by both internal and international factors. These included a powerful monarchy with little interest in administrative and economic reform, a large aristocracy frequently holding vital provincial governorships and frustrating effective central government and a failure to create a modern civil service, military, banking, finance or communications - the essential infrastructure for economic development. Reformers were marginalised and business suffered. And the all-powerful ulema were a further brake on modernisation. On the international front, the rivalry of Britain and Russia compounded the problems: both acting to control Iran and to further their own interests. Hooshang Amirahmadi explores the roots of present-day challenges to modernisation and progress and, using a wealth of primary sources and original research, has produced a work which is invaluable for students of modern Iranian history, politics and Iran's political economy.

Author : Edmund Herzig,Sarah Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786724465

Get Book

Early Islamic Iran by Edmund Herzig,Sarah Stewart Pdf

How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the country's conversion and initial Islamic period. Distinguished contributors (who include the late Oleg Grabar, Roy Mottahedeh, Alan Williams and Said Amir Arjomand) discuss, from a variety of literary, artistic, religious and cultural perspectives, the years around the end of the first millennium CE, when the political strength of the 'Abbasid Caliphate was on the wane, and when the eastern lands of the Islamic empire began to be take on a fresh 'Persianate' or 'Perso-Islamic' character. One of the paradoxes of this era is that the establishment throughout the eastern Islamic territories of new Turkish dynasties coincided with the genesis and spread, into Central and South Asia, of vibrant new Persian language and literatures. Exploring the nature of this paradox, separate chapters engage with ideas of kingship, authority and identity and their fascinating expression through the written word, architecture and the visual arts.

Author : Pamela Karimi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135101374

Get Book

Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran by Pamela Karimi Pdf

Examining Iran’s recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres. On the cusp of Iran’s entry into modernity, the rules and tenets that had traditionally defined the Iranian home began to vanish and the influx of new household goods gradually led to the substantial physical expansion of the domestic milieu. Subsequently, architects, designers, and commercial advertisers shifted their attention from commercial and public architecture to the new home and its contents. Domesticity and consumer culture also became topics of interest among politicians, Shiite religious scholars, and the Left, who communicated their respective views via the popular media and numerous other means. In the interim, ordinary Iranian families, who were capable of selectively appropriating aspects of their immediate surroundings, demonstrated their resistance toward the officially sanctioned transformations. Through analyzing a series of case studies that elucidate such phenomena and appraising a wide range of objects and archival documents—from furnishings, appliances, architectural blueprints, and maps to photographs, films, TV series, novels, artworks, scrapbooks, work-logs, personal letters and reports—this book highlights the significance of private life in social, economic, and political contexts of modern Iran. Tackling the subject of home from a variety of perspectives, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran thus shows the interplay between local aspirations, foreign influences, gender roles, consumer culture and women’s education as they intersect with taste, fashion, domestic architecture and interior design.

Author : Alidad Mafinezam,Aria Mehrabi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780275999278

Get Book

Iran and Its Place among Nations by Alidad Mafinezam,Aria Mehrabi Pdf

Iran and Its Place among Nations takes a bird's-eye view of where Iran has been in the international community, where it is today, and where it may ideally end up in the future. Is Iran an Eastern country, bound by traditions that hinder economic development? Or does it also have some attributes of Western countries, given its history, geographic location, culture, and politics? Among the key insights in this book is the observation that Iran is a bridge between East and West. Is Iran a fomenter of Islamic radicalism in the Middle East and beyond, or can it be a promoter of moderation and reform within its own borders and in other Muslim countries? How effectively can the religious and national sources of Iran's identity by reconciled, or must the country choose one over the other and overcome the inherent tensions of this dual identity? This book addresses these and similar questions regarding one of the most important and newsworthy countries in the world. Combining description and prescription, the authors shed light on the tumultuous history of Iran in the twentieth century and uncover the domestic and foreign factors that have aided and retarded the country's development in modern times. Providing a close look at the backgrounds and identities of key pre- and post-revolutionary leaders in Iran, the authors make insightful recommendations to Iranians and the international community on how to integrate Iran into harmonious and stable relationships that benefit Iranians, the region that surrounds them, and the world. Grounded in solid scholarship yet written accessibly, this is a must-read for all Iran watchers today.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050691653

Get Book

Dismantling Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Christopher S. Gibson,Christopher R. Drahozal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199774418

Get Book

The Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at 25 by Christopher S. Gibson,Christopher R. Drahozal Pdf

The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, which has been called the most significant arbitral body in history, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006. As of mid-2005, the Tribunal had issued over 800 awards and decisions--a total of 600 awards (including partial awards and awards on agreed terms), 83 interlocutory and interim awards, and 133 decisions--in resolving almost 3000 cases. The Tribunal's awards have been described as the most important body of international arbitration jurisprudence. The significance of these decisions as persuasive authority is second to none. In this volume, experts in the field identify and comment on the Tribunal awards that are most important for international arbitration; i.e., the cases that everyone needs to know for investor-state and international commercial arbitration. The book approaches the Tribunal's work from a forward-looking perspective with emphasis on the continuing usefulness of awards and decisions issued by the Tribunal in international arbitration practice. In addition to original contributions from an array of eminent authors (all of whom have extensive experience at the Tribunal and/or in investor-State and international arbitration), this book includes excerpts of key awards discussed in the contributions, as well as appendices with foundational documents for the Tribunal. CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: · Roger P. Alford, Pepperdine University School of Law, former Legal Assistant, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal · David J. Bederman, Emory Law School, former Legal Assistant, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal · David D. Caron, C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, former Legal Assistant, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal · Jack J. Coe, Jr. Pepperdine University School of Law, former Legal Assistant, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal · Christopher R. Drahozal, John M. Rounds Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law; former Legal Assistant, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal · Christopher S. Gibson, Suffolk University Law School; former Legal Assistant, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal · Mark R. Joelson, Law Office of Mark R. Joelson · Lucinda A. Low, Steptoe & Johnson · Andrea J. Menaker, Office of the Legal Advisor, U.S. Department of State · Sean D. Murphy, George Washington University Law School, former U.S. Agent to the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal · Daniel M. Price, Sidley Austin, former Deputy U.S. Agent to the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal · Jeffrey F. Pryce, Steptoe & Johnson