The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, A Radical Cosmopolitan

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Notes

1 Most recently, Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019); and Iran’s Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid’s Legacy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

2 On Arani’s writings on science, see Younes Jalali, Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin: Fundamental Science, Psychology, Orientalism, and Political Philosophy (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019).

3 Homa Katouzian, Khalil Maleki: The Human Face of Iranian Socialism (London: OneWorld Academic, 2018), p.24.

4 Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), p.162.

5 Ervand Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p.xvii.

6 Ali Mirsepassi, ‘Crafting Iranian National Imaginary: The Interwar Period (1918–1935)’, in Ramin Jahanbegloo (ed.), Mapping the role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History (London: Lexington Books, 2020), p.27.

7 See Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions, pp.156–57; and Afshin Matin-Asgari, Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Modern Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), p.99.

8 Oscar Handlin, Truth in History (London: Belknap Press, 1979), p.276.