Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place

Modern Iran is a country with two significant but competing discourses of national identity, one stemming from ancient pre-Islamic customs and mythology, the other from Islamic Shi'i practices and beliefs. At one time co-existing and often mutually reinforcing, in more modern times they have be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mozaffari, Ali
Format: Book
Published: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35481