Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333949221)

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made "homeless" by subsequent nationalist histories and shows how they relate to Indo-Iranian modernity. In doing so, he argues for a radical rewriting of Iranian history with profound implications for Islamic debates on gender.

Author: s. Tavakoli-Targhi
ISBN-10: 0333949226
ISBN-13: 9780333949221
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2001
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.68w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2002 pg. 2022