Teacher
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FILIPPONE Elina
(syllabus)
• Introduction to the problems characterising the Iranian and Islamic, in particular Shiite, world (aimed at placing the proposed issues in a critical historical frame)• The Qajar dinasty • The impact of European (in particular, British and Russian) imperialism on the politico-economic development of Iran and its involvment in the ‘Great Game’ • The cultural policy of Nasiroddin Shah; the development of photography in Iran and the contribution of Italian photographers to the diffusion of the new tools for visual communication (special workshops will be devoted to the subject) • The Costitutional Revolution • The Anglo-Russian agreement • Iran during the First World War • The 1925 coup d’etat of Reza Khan and the creation of the new Pahlavi dinasty • The modernization process under Reza Shah • Iran during the Second World War • Reza Shah’s dismissal and the rise to power of Mohammad Reza Shah • The nationalist interregnum of Mossadeq, the oil nationalization and the 1953 coup d’etat • The White Revolution and the modernization policies of the Shah • The Islamic Revolution • The political organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(reference books)
E. Abrahamian, Storia dell’Iran dai primi del Novecento a oggi. Donzelli editore 2008
Farian Sabahi, Storia dell’Iran 1890-2008, Bruno Mondadori 2009
D. Stein, "Three Photographic Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Iran", Muqarnas 6 (1989), pp. 112-130
M. F. Bonetti, "Gli esordi della fotografia in Persia: contributi italiani", in M. F. Bonetti, A. Prandi (eds.), La Persia Qajar. Fotografi italiani in Iran 1848-1864, Roma 2010, pp. 23-28
Additional learning material will be distributed during the course. The students who do not attend the course are required to get in touch with prof. E. Filippone.
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