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

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

Studies in Modernity and National Identity

Afshin Marashi

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nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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