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 introduction of the Aryan mith as a legacy from European culture and its use in the construction of the identity of modern Iran • 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. Motadel, Iran and the Aryan Myth, in Ali M. Ansari (ed.), Perceptions of Iran: History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013), 119-145
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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