Introduction / Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi -- Paradigms of Iranian nationalism : history, theory, and historiography / Afshin Marashi -- Franz Babinger and the legacy of the "German counter- revolution" in early modern Iranian historiography / Ali Anooshahr -- The Berlin circle : Iranian nationalism meets German countermodernity / Afshin Matin-Asgari -- The love that dare not be translated : erasures of premodern sexuality in modern Persian mysticism / Wendy DeSouza -- Imagining Iran before nationalism : geocultural meanings of land in Azar's Atashkadeh / Mana Kia -- The Khuzistani Arab movement, 1941/1946 : a case of nationalism? / Brian Mann -- "The portals of Persepolis" : the role of nationalism in early U.S.-Iranian relations / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet -- An Iranian in New York : Abbas Masudi's description of the non-Iranian on the eve of the Cold War / Camron Michael Amin -- Islamic-Iranian nationalism and its implications for the study of political Islam and religious nationalism / Kamran Scot Aghaie -- The place of Islam in interwar Iranian nationalist historiography / Farzin Vejdani -- Contesting marginality : ethnicity and the construction of new histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Touraj Atabaki -- Return of the avant-garde to the streets of Tehran / Talinn Grigor -- Construction of Iran's national identity : three discourses / Sussan Siavoshi -- Relocating a common past and the making of east-centric modernity : Islamic and secular nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran / Hanan Hammad -- "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"? : post-1979 Iran and the fragile fiction of Israel as a Euro-American space / Haggai Ram.