Overview
- Highlights the various impacts of modernity in Iran to identify fundamental, but often neglected issues for understanding present-day Iran
- Presents an apolitical study of modern Iran that neither subscribes to an ideological stance, nor promotes a school of thought
- Provides a companion to the author’s book, Iran Revisited, to help offer a better understanding of the arguments in the study, without repeating theoretical reasoning from the previous work
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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This book highlights fundamental, but often neglected, issues important for a better understanding of present-day Iran. It underlines the idea that the most effective means for a nation to meet challenges and practices of the modern era lies with the fundamental values and norms that resonate with its inhabitants.
This book is meant to be a companion to the author’s published book Iran Revisited: Exploring the Historical Roots of Culture, Economics, and Society that expands upon that book’s ideas, without repeating its theoretical reasoning. Its goal is to offer a better understanding of the current and evolving situations in Iran. In this regard, the author tried to clarify his position through a host of suggestions, most notably, the need to consider social rights as the bare minimum but extremely imperative criteria in our contemporary discourse for the betterment of our society. These rights, he argues, are the most fundamental tenets of any community that strives to succeed and flourish.
In this context, the underlying discussion rests on the following claim: the most persisting problems in Iran are the outcomes of the gradual regression of the people’ mindset that persistently overlooked their heritage and value system in favor of imitating ideas that were/are neither compatible with their culture and history, nor applicable to the country’s socioeconomic conditions. The author, therefore, presumed that these predicaments are self-inflicted: they were neither caused by a specific state, nor belong to a historical period, or individual(s); they cannot be characterized by political or economic terminologies, but are firmly rooted in people inability to recognize that the most vital principle in developing and propelling a nation forward is the existence of a unified people.
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Book Title: Modern Iran in Perspective
Authors: Ali Pirzadeh
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25708-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25707-1Published: 14 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25708-8Published: 05 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2191-5466
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 111
Topics: Middle Eastern and North African Economics, Middle Eastern Politics, History of the Middle East