STORIA DELL'IRAN E DEI PAESI DI CULTURA IRANICA
(objectives)
The objective of the course is to provide students with the basic tools to know the history of Iran of 19th and 20th centuries. In that period the major transformation that have taken place in that country, somehow suspended between tradition and innovation, have led to the construction of a new identity. For this purpose, emphasis will be put on issues concerning the origin of the modernization process in the Qajar period (with particular reference to the reign of Nasiroddin Shah and his cultural politics), the European imperialism, the Constitutional Revolution; the modernization process during the Pahlavi dynasty; the 1953 coup d’état and the Islamic Revolution, with the shaping of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its consolidation at the beginning of 21st c. A Particular attention will be given to the genesis of the Iranian nationalist movement and its different ideological components; among these, the exaltation of the pre-Islamic past, the reconstruction of which racist theories of European origin have also contributed. Expected learning outcomes at the end of the course: 1) (Knowledge and understanding) basic historical knowledge of the main political and social events and problems of Iran of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 2) (Applied knowledge and understanding) on the basis of the acquired historical knowledge, ability to understand and analyze the contemporary political processes of the geopolitical area studied, 3) (Making judgments) flexibility of judgment and ability to compare and select based on a vision of Iran and the Middle East area more critical than the commonly widespread, eurocentristic one; 4) (Communicative skills) acquisition of communication techniques appropriate to the description of the problems treated thanks to the involvement of the students in the laboratory activities performed during the course, and to the forms of verification in itinere; 5) (Learning skills) ability to critically read texts related to Iran and other countries of the Middle East and to adequately use basic bibliographic and historical research tools; these skills are acquired thanks to joint laboratory activities and individual in-depth study.
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Code
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15375 |
Language
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ITA |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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8
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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L-OR/14
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Contact Hours
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48
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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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 • Development of the nationalist movement; exaltation of the pre-Islamic past as an element of national identity • 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)
Farian Sabahi (2019), Il bazar e la moschea. Storia dell'Iran 1890-2018, Bruno Mondadori.
E. Abrahamian (2009), Storia dell’Iran dai primi del Novecento a oggi. Donzelli editore.
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (2014) ‘Arab invasion’ and decline, or the import of European racial thought by Iranian nationalists, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37:6, 1043-1061 (https://kcl.academia.edu/RezaZiaEbrahimi)
Additional teaching material will be distributed during the course and made available on the Moodle platform. Non-attending students are required to contact the teacher.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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