Homa Katouzian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1084323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Homa Katouzian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Homa |
| FAMILY NAME | Katouzian |
| SIGNATURE | KATOUZIAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited
Mr Gorjestani has ignored almost the entire evidence in my article on the reasons why Iran rejected both the World Bank intervention and the second Anglo-American proposal, and why both those rejections were grave mistakes and led to the 1953 coup and fall of Mosaddeq's government, which was by no means inevitable if only because inevitability is itself an unscientific concept
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Jalal Al-e Ahmad was a leading Iranian writer and critic, best known for his long essay, Gharbzadegi or Weststruckness, which many critics controversially regard as a harbinger of the Islamic revolution. There is no doubt that, willy-nilly, what was believed to be his rejection of western civilization was posthumously very influential in shaping public opinion. Dabashi’s largely uncritical biography is useful in its description of Al-e Ahmad’s li…
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited
The 1953 coup in Iran was not inevitable. It would not have happened if at least two opportunities had been seized to settle the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. The first was the World Bank proposal of February 1952 to act as a neutral intermediary between the two sides by running Iran’s oil industry for 2 years on a non-profit basis. It was accepted by Britain but rejected by Iran, because it insisted on the Bank acting solely on its behalf, a condit…
The Persians
In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons—its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear program, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to toda…
Iranian Studies
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Dr Hossein Shahidi (1953–2014), Media specialist and Assistant Editor, Iranian Studies
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Iran
"This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make modernisation possible, and the second, to overthrow th…
Miracles at the Saqqa-khanih
In June 1924 Tehran woke up to the news that a famous saqqa-khanih had performed miracles. The most widespread story was that a Babi / Baha'i girl had tried to poison the saqqa-khanih's water and had suddenly gone blind. This happened against the background of an acute power struggle between Reza Khan and the opposition which had recently ended with the failure of his campaign to turn Iran into a republic. The news of the miracles led to anti-Bab…
Iranian History and Politics
This book contains the most detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian history and politics, both modern and traditional. Every chapter is a study of its own specific topics while being firmly a part of the whole argument. The discussions include close comparisons with the history of Europe to demonstrate the diversities of the logic and sociology of Iran…
Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh
Taqizdeh’s extraordinary career involves three distinct but interrelated phases. In the first he is an influential young intellectual of the constitutional revolution and becomes a leading spokesperson of the Democrat party. This is the “first Taqizadeh” who in 1910 goes into voluntary exile in Europe and does not return until 1923, having in the meantime led the Berlin National Committee of Iranian intellectuals against the Anglo-Russian interve…
The Revolution for Law
This paper brings together a description and analysis of various aspects of the constitutional revolution, as a revolt by society in favour of the law and against arbitrary rule by the state, rather than by the lower against the upper classes as in European revolutions, this being characteristic of major Iranian revolts both before and after that event. It includes a discussion of aspects which have generally been neglected, notably the ‘politics…
Alborz and its Teachers
The success story of Alborz High School was due to a number of factors. The legacy of Dr. Jordan and other of its American founders had set unusually high standards of teaching, behavior, discipline and conduct. Dr. Mojathedi managed to maintain those standards through dedication and hard work, even though there was occasional friction between him and students and teachers. Almost all the students, some of them from the upper echelons of society,…
Iraj Afshar (1925–2011)
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The Strange Politics of Khalil Maleki
The Iranian Revolution at 30
In February 1979, the Iranian revolution overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy, which had ruled Iran since 1926. That event subsequently became known as the Islamic revolution, although it had a much wide
Persians
Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran
The first half of the 20th century excluding the Reza Shah period is unique in the whole history of Persian literature in the amount of satire, lampoons and invectives which were published largely though not entirely through the press, and usually with a political motive. It was characteristic of Iranian history that the fall of an arbitrary state, often even the death of a ruler, led to division and chaos. The first quarter of the twentieth cent…
Sadeq Hedayat
Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his short stories are in a critical realist style an…
Iraj, the Poet of Love and Humor
Iraj was a leading poet of the late Qajar era, a major poet in the whole history of Persian poetry, and by far the greatest of the poets who descended from Fath'ali Shah. Two things in particular distinguish Iraj's poetry: eloquence and humor. It is difficult to describe him as a satirist in the strict sense of this term since satire in his works is normally incidental and a natural result of his unique humor when writing about most subjects. His…
The Significance of Economic History, and the Fundamental Features of the Economic History of Iran
Just as natural history is the mother of the biological sciences, social history is the mother of the social sciences. Classical political economy was developed in a dynamic era, a period of European history where a series of long-term social developments were approaching their peak in the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution of England. It is not at all surprising that Adam Smith and David Hume spent time with the French Physiocrats, …
The short-term society
Iran was a short-term society in contrast to Europe’s long-term society. It was a society in which change - even important and fundamental change - tended to be a short-term phenomenon. And this was precisely due to the absence of an established and inviolable legal framework which would guarantee long term continuity. Over any short period of time, there could be notable military, administrative and property-owning classes, but their composition…
Legitimacy and Succession in Iranian History
In Iran, both before and after Islam, the ruler was thought to be God's vicegerent on earth and, unlike Europe, his legitimacy was not dependent on the law of primogeniture. Thus he was not bound by any written or unwritten law or tradition and could take decisions up to the utmost of his physical power, the only restraint being the fear of rebellion. He would lose God's Grace and somehow fall from power if he ruled unjustly, but there was no tes…
The Poet-Laureate Bahār in the Constitutional Era
State and Society in Iran
Iran was the first country of the Middle East to experience (in 1905-6) a popular revolution that demanded the rule of law and parliamentary government. But the democratic constitution established by the revolution plunged the country into a period of turmoil and, despite subsequent popular democratic movements, most notably in the early 1950s and during the Iranian revolution of 1978-9, the country has for most of the century, lived under arbitr…
The Revolt of Shaykh Mu?ammad Khiy?b?n
Proposant une relecture critique des interpretations de la revolte de Cheikh Muhammad Khiyābānī, l'A. examine la revolte de Khiyābānī dans le contexte de la Revolution Constitutionnelle iranienne et du chaos politique de l'epoque. Interpretant l'evolution historique de l'Iran dans le cadre theorique du regne arbitraire (arbitrary rule), et utilisant des sources importantes nouvelles, il decrit et analyse les causes et les implications de la revol…
The Political Economy of Modern Iran
Visit the Unspun website which includes Table of Contents and the Introduction. The World Wide Web has cut a wide path through our daily lives. As claims of "the Web changes everything" suffuse print
The short-term society
Iran was a short-term society in contrast to Europe’s long-term society. It was a society in which change - even important and fundamental change - tended to be a short-term phenomenon. And this was precisely due to the absence of an established and inviolable legal framework which would guarantee long term continuity. Over any short period of time, there could be notable military, administrative and property-owning classes, but their composition…
The Aridisolatic Society
The recent Iranian revolution has brought into light the question of the nature and significance of both the logic and the sociology of long-term social and economic development in that country. This subject is of considerable interest in its own right, but it is of even greater significance for a realistic understanding of the country's recent developments, its present situation, and its future prospects. For it was mainly the Jack of such an un…
The Iranian Revolution at 30
In February 1979, the Iranian revolution overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy, which had ruled Iran since 1926. That event subsequently became known as the Islamic revolution, although it had a much wide
The campaign against the Anglo‐Iranian agreement of 1919
The Anglo‐Iranian agreement of 1919 was a major turning point both in the modern history of Iran and in her relations with Britain. It was the brainchild of Lord Curzon and the Foreign Office in which the other British government departments eventually acquiesced with reluctance, although the government of India retained its opposition to it. It failed because of the fears it created for the loss of Iran's independence, mainly as a result of the …
Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Modern Iran
Research Article| August 01 1998 Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Modern Iran Homa Katouzian Homa Katouzian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (2): 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-18-2-31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Homa Katouzian; Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Modern I…
The Revolution for Law
This paper brings together a description and analysis of various aspects of the constitutional revolution, as a revolt by society in favour of the law and against arbitrary rule by the state, rather than by the lower against the upper classes as in European revolutions, this being characteristic of major Iranian revolts both before and after that event. It includes a discussion of aspects which have generally been neglected, notably the ‘politics…
Arbitrary rule
Modern studies of Iranian history and society have often been based on theories developed for the study of European society. This has led to important anomalies which can be resolved by recognizing the fundamental differences in the development of the two types of society within the framework of a single social science. Agricultural property was owned by the state, parts of which it assigned or farmed out to individuals or groups as a privilege, …
Seyyed Hasan Taqizadeh
Taqizdeh’s extraordinary career involves three distinct but interrelated phases. In the first he is an influential young intellectual of the constitutional revolution and becomes a leading spokesperson of the Democrat party. This is the “first Taqizadeh” who in 1910 goes into voluntary exile in Europe and does not return until 1923, having in the meantime led the Berlin National Committee of Iranian intellectuals against the Anglo-Russian interve…
The Significance of Economic History, and the Fundamental Features of the Economic History of Iran
Just as natural history is the mother of the biological sciences, social history is the mother of the social sciences. Classical political economy was developed in a dynamic era, a period of European history where a series of long-term social developments were approaching their peak in the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution of England. It is not at all surprising that Adam Smith and David Hume spent time with the French Physiocrats, …
Legitimacy and Succession in Iranian History
In Iran, both before and after Islam, the ruler was thought to be God's vicegerent on earth and, unlike Europe, his legitimacy was not dependent on the law of primogeniture. Thus he was not bound by any written or unwritten law or tradition and could take decisions up to the utmost of his physical power, the only restraint being the fear of rebellion. He would lose God's Grace and somehow fall from power if he ruled unjustly, but there was no tes…
Ideology and Method in Economics
Journal Article Ideology and Method in Economics Get access Ideology and Method in Economics. By Homa Katouzian. (London: Macmillan, 1980. Pp. xiii + 248. £10.00 hardback, £5.95 paperback.) Ian M. T. Stewart Ian M. T. Stewart University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 359, 1 September 1980, Pages 670–672, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231961 Published: 01 Sep…
Ideology and Method in Economics
Journal Article Ideology and Method in Economics Get access Ideology and Method in Economics. By Homa Katouzian. (London: Macmillan, 1980. Pp. xiii + 248. £10.00 hardback, £5.95 paperback.) Ian M. T. Stewart Ian M. T. Stewart University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 359, 1 September 1980, Pages 670–672, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231961 Published: 01 Sep…
The Political Economy of Modern Iran
Visit the Unspun website which includes Table of Contents and the Introduction. The World Wide Web has cut a wide path through our daily lives. As claims of "the Web changes everything" suffuse print
The Aridisolatic Society
The recent Iranian revolution has brought into light the question of the nature and significance of both the logic and the sociology of long-term social and economic development in that country. This subject is of considerable interest in its own right, but it is of even greater significance for a realistic understanding of the country's recent developments, its present situation, and its future prospects. For it was mainly the Jack of such an un…
T. S. Kuhn, Functionalism, and Sociology of Knowledge
Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran
A biography of Muhammad Musaddiq, who was prime minister of Iran between 1951 and 1953, until he was deposed in a CIA backed coup d’etat and who has long been regarded as one of the great anti-colonial campaingners of the post war era.
Sadeq Hedayat
Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. He was born in 1903 and he lived a troubled life which ended in 1951 with his suicide in Paris. His most celebrated novel, “The Blind Owl” has made an impact far beyond Iranian literary circles and has drawn the attention of Western critics. But Hedayat’s impact on the development of modern fiction and on the lives of generations of Iranian intellectuals d…
Sadeq Hedayat
Problems of political development in Iran
(1995). Problems of political development in Iran: democracy, dictatorship or arbitrary government? British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1-2, pp. 5-20
A Comment on Rudi Matthee's “Transforming Dangerous Nomads into Useful Artisans, Technicians, Agriculturists
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Arbitrary rule
Modern studies of Iranian history and society have often been based on theories developed for the study of European society. This has led to important anomalies which can be resolved by recognizing the fundamental differences in the development of the two types of society within the framework of a single social science. Agricultural property was owned by the state, parts of which it assigned or farmed out to individuals or groups as a privilege, …
Liberty and Licence in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran
It is characteristic of Iranian revolts and rebellions that they usually occur when the state is perceived to be weak and unable to enforce its authority. Naser al-Din Shah was an arbitrary ruler like all his predecessors. But, the consequences of arbitrary rulers were not all alike either for themselves or for the country. Much depended on their personalities as well as the circumstances in which they lived. For example, the fall of the Safavid …
The campaign against the Anglo‐Iranian agreement of 1919
The Anglo‐Iranian agreement of 1919 was a major turning point both in the modern history of Iran and in her relations with Britain. It was the brainchild of Lord Curzon and the Foreign Office in which the other British government departments eventually acquiesced with reluctance, although the government of India retained its opposition to it. It failed because of the fears it created for the loss of Iran's independence, mainly as a result of the …
Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Modern Iran
Research Article| August 01 1998 Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Modern Iran Homa Katouzian Homa Katouzian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (2): 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-18-2-31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Homa Katouzian; Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Modern I…
The Revolt of Shaykh Mu?ammad Khiy?b?n
Proposant une relecture critique des interpretations de la revolte de Cheikh Muhammad Khiyābānī, l'A. examine la revolte de Khiyābānī dans le contexte de la Revolution Constitutionnelle iranienne et du chaos politique de l'epoque. Interpretant l'evolution historique de l'Iran dans le cadre theorique du regne arbitraire (arbitrary rule), et utilisant des sources importantes nouvelles, il decrit et analyse les causes et les implications de la revol…
State and Society in Iran
Iran was the first country of the Middle East to experience (in 1905-6) a popular revolution that demanded the rule of law and parliamentary government. But the democratic constitution established by the revolution plunged the country into a period of turmoil and, despite subsequent popular democratic movements, most notably in the early 1950s and during the Iranian revolution of 1978-9, the country has for most of the century, lived under arbitr…
The Poet-Laureate Bahār in the Constitutional Era
Legitimacy and Succession in Iranian History
In Iran, both before and after Islam, the ruler was thought to be God's vicegerent on earth and, unlike Europe, his legitimacy was not dependent on the law of primogeniture. Thus he was not bound by any written or unwritten law or tradition and could take decisions up to the utmost of his physical power, the only restraint being the fear of rebellion. He would lose God's Grace and somehow fall from power if he ruled unjustly, but there was no tes…
The short-term society
Iran was a short-term society in contrast to Europe’s long-term society. It was a society in which change - even important and fundamental change - tended to be a short-term phenomenon. And this was precisely due to the absence of an established and inviolable legal framework which would guarantee long term continuity. Over any short period of time, there could be notable military, administrative and property-owning classes, but their composition…
The Significance of Economic History, and the Fundamental Features of the Economic History of Iran
Just as natural history is the mother of the biological sciences, social history is the mother of the social sciences. Classical political economy was developed in a dynamic era, a period of European history where a series of long-term social developments were approaching their peak in the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution of England. It is not at all surprising that Adam Smith and David Hume spent time with the French Physiocrats, …
Sadeq Hedayat
Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his short stories are in a critical realist style an…
Iraj, the Poet of Love and Humor
Iraj was a leading poet of the late Qajar era, a major poet in the whole history of Persian poetry, and by far the greatest of the poets who descended from Fath'ali Shah. Two things in particular distinguish Iraj's poetry: eloquence and humor. It is difficult to describe him as a satirist in the strict sense of this term since satire in his works is normally incidental and a natural result of his unique humor when writing about most subjects. His…
Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran
The first half of the 20th century excluding the Reza Shah period is unique in the whole history of Persian literature in the amount of satire, lampoons and invectives which were published largely though not entirely through the press, and usually with a political motive. It was characteristic of Iranian history that the fall of an arbitrary state, often even the death of a ruler, led to division and chaos. The first quarter of the twentieth cent…
Persians
The Strange Politics of Khalil Maleki
The Iranian Revolution at 30
In February 1979, the Iranian revolution overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy, which had ruled Iran since 1926. That event subsequently became known as the Islamic revolution, although it had a much wide
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