Bücher von Hamid Dabashi

Europe as we've known it is a dying myth, but colonial relations live on.

Brings together, in a sustained and engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have shaped the ideological disposition of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. It provides particular attention to the larger, more enduring ramifications of this revolution for radical Islamic revivalism in the entire Muslim world.

Through a careful study of contemporary Iranian history in its political, literary, and artistic dimensions, Dabashi decouples the idea of Iran from its colonial linkage to the cliche notion of "the nation-state," and then demonstrates how an "aesthetic intuition of transcendence" has enabled it to be re-conceived as a powerful nation.