Contents

Introduction – Ali M Ansari

1. Iran’s Dialectic of the Enlightenment: Notes on Constitutional Experience and Conflicting Narratives of Modernity – Ali Gheissari

2. From Narrating History to Constructing Memory: The Role of Photography in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution – Elahe Helbig

3. The Enlightenment and Historical Difference: The Case of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution – Kamran Matin

4. Shrinking Borders and Expanding Vocabularies: Translation and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 – Milad Odabaei

5. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Influence of Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani’s Political Thought – Pejman Abdolmohammadi

6. Realism, Nationalism and Criticism: Iranian Enlightenment and the Philosophy of Literature in Mirza Fatali Akhundzade’s Words – Salour Evaz Malayeri

7. ‘To mean or not to mean?’ as the Underlying Question of Western-Inspired Counter-Enlightenment Discourse in Iran – Urs Goesken

8. In Search of the Secret Center in Constitutional Tabriz – Evan Siegel

9. Early Translations of Modern European Philosophy. On the Significance of an Under-Researched Phenomenon for the Study of Modern Iranian Intellectual History – Roman Seidel

10. Looking Back at Mashrutih: Late Pahlavi Narratives on the Constitutional Revolution – Siavush Randjbar-Daemi

Contributors
Index