Nationalism has played an important role in the cultural and intellectual discourse of modernity that emerged in Iran from the late nineteenth century to the present, promoting new formulations of collective identity and advocating a new and more active role for the broad strata of the public in politics. The essays in this volume seek to shed light on the construction of nationalism in Iran in its many manifestations; cultural, social, political and ideological, by exploring on-going debates on this important and progressive topic.

The construction of Iranian national identity : an overview / Meir Litvak -- Persian-Iranian national identity : the longue durée, from Achaemenid times onward / Azar Gat -- Four iterations of Persian literary nationalism / Nasrin Rahimieh -- Intersectionality and the narrative of nationalism / Eliz Sanasarian -- Gendering the nation : masculinity and nationalism in Iran during the constitutional revolution / Sivan Balslev -- Nationalism and Islam in a provincial setting : late Qajar Isfahan / Meir Litvak -- Iranian nationalism and the question of race / Ali M. Ansari -- Nationalist representations of the Persian Gulf under Reza Shah Pahlavi / Chelsi Mueller -- Iranian nationalism, Islamic unity and Shi'ism in Iran's regional policy : from the Pahlavis to the Islamic Republic / Raz Zimmt -- Surveying the 'sheikhdoms' of the Persian Gulf, 1966-1973 : newspaperman ʻAbbās Masʻūdī and the construction of Iranian nationalism in foreign policy / Camron Michael Amin -- "True Muslims must always be tidy and clean" : exoticism of the countryside in late Pahlavi Iran / Menahem Merhavi -- "The Jew has a lot of money, too" : representations of Jews in twentieth century Iranian culture / Orly Rahimyan -- Jewish intellectuals in Iran and their quest for Iranian national identity in the first half of the twentieth century / Miriam Nissimov -- Pre-revolutionary Islamic discourse in Iran as nationalism : Islamism in Iran as nationalism / Alexander Greenberg -- Nationalism and the Islamic Republic of Iran / Bernard Hourcade -- Beyond boundaries : Iranian Azeris in an age of globalization / Geoffrey F. Gresh -- Guarding the nation : the Iranian revolutionary guards, nationalism, and the Iran-Iraq war / Annie Tracy-Samuel -- From state to nation and from nation to state in Egypt : the role of the state in the formation of nationalism and the role of nationalism in the formation of the state, 1805-1952 / Israel Gershoni.