Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Biographic Data
| ID | 1639288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Firoozeh |
| FAMILY NAME | Kashani-Sabet |
| SIGNATURE | KASHANI-SABET F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Banning and Belonging: Sovereignty and Ethnicity in Bahrain and the Persian Gulf Coast, 1900–41
The Other Fight: Women's Suffrage and Iran's Oil Nationalization
Iran handed the world a surprise in 1951. That spring, its parliament voted to nationalize the country's lucrative petroleum industry. Euphoria spread as young Iranians tore down Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) signs and watched mighty Britain cower (temporarily) before the hero of Iran's oil nationalization, Mohammad Mosaddeq. Stunned by this brazenness, an American summary posed the question on the minds of many diplomats: “How did nine Persia…
Introduction: Activism, Scholarship, and Shaping History
The idea for this roundtable emerged from a special session held at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) in Denver in December 2022. As nationwide protests swept over Iran, many MESA members voiced support for organizing a public conversation that addressed various aspects of the Woman, Life, Freedom (WLF, Zan, Zendegi, Azadi ) uprising. We thank MESA president, Eve Troutt Powell, for supporting this l…
A Nation in Turmoil, A Field in Crisis: The Upshots of Woman, Life, Freedom”
By now, it is well known that the murder of the Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, last fall sparked nationwide protests in Iran. Aside from Jina, many other young protestors were killed, imprisoned, or permanently disabled, as security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran began blinding demonstrators by firing rubber bullets at their eyes. 1 These ghastly scenes were accompanied by other disturbing and violent acts that included the raiding of u…
The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization, Diplomacy, and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran
In 1946, the entertainer and activist Paul Robeson pondered America's intentions in Iran. In what was to become one of the first major crises of the Cold War, Iran was fighting a Soviet aggressor that did not want to leave. Robeson posed the question, “Is our State Department concerned with protecting the rights of Iran and the welfare of the Iranian people, or is it concerned with protecting Anglo-American oil in that country and the Middle East…
A Sestina in 1979
POETRY Firoozeh KashaniSabet is a novelist and a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her creative work follows the treacherous path of politics by intruding into people’s personal lives and private spaces. Through her poems and stories, she explores some of the themes of her academic research, including alienation, prejudice, power, love, and violence. A Note on “A Sestina in 1979” by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Afte…
Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran
For over a decade Middle East studies has migrated into a somewhat predictable intellectual terrain: the field of ethnic and religious minority studies, especially in the United States. This emphasis reflects our zeitgeist given that the Middle East is riven by ethnic and sectarian conflict—a battle that has spilled into the West, where Muslim minorities must come to terms with the atrocities of their co-religionists as they struggle to confront …
Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity
While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length study - until now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped this specialization, Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity shares innovative research and charts new areas of analysis from an array of scholars in the field. Delving into a wide range of theoretical and conceptual perspectives, the essays - all …
Freedom Springs Eternal
Revolutions are chaotic affairs. In February 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers declared victory, Iran's future seemed uncertain. After a long night of hostility and bloodshed, an eerie silence fell on Tehran, and in some corners fear supplanted exhilaration. Those of us who witnessed these historic events did not fully fathom what Islamic politics augured. Within weeks, on the occasion of International Women's Day, it became clear t…
Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran
The role of women in Iran has commonly been viewed solely through the lens of religion, symbolized by veiled females subordinated by society. In this work, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, an Iranian-American historian, aims to explain how the role of women has been central to national political debates in Iran. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the book examines issues impacting women's lives under successive regimes, including hygiene campaigns that…
American Crosses, Persian Crescents: Religion and the Diplomacy of US–Iranian Relations, 1834–1911
The American public came to know Iran through its missionaries who had lived among the Persians. For their part, Iranians grew familiar with Americans through interactions with these missionary pioneers as well. While American Presbyterians quickly established and expanded their institutional presence in the country, it became abundantly clear to them that Muslim converts to Protestantism remained few and far between. Missionary perceptions of Ir…
The Haves and the Have Nots: A Historical Study of Disability in Modern Iran
This essay provides a historical analysis of Iranian experiences with disability. I will begin by reviewing the literary application of the term in various contexts. Next, I will examine the social milieux in which local observers, medical professionals, and policy makers talked about and treated disability. As state-run institutions emerged to address disability needs, health professionals often drew a distinction between physical disability and…
A Reply to Camron Michael Amin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Reproduction: Maternalism and Women's Hygiene in Iran, 1896–1941
Travelers to Iran in the 19th century often decried the startling rate of infant mortality. Writing in 1856, Lady Mary Sheil, wife of the British envoy to Persia, Sir Justin Sheil, remarked that “the mortality among children is immense, owing to neglect, ignorance, and laziness.” Citing the Shah's French physician, Sheil continued: “Dr. Cloquet ... expressed to me his conviction that not above three children in ten outlived their third year.” She…
Who Is Fatima? Gender, Culture, and Representation in Islam
quot;T^atima, " observed Nusrat Allah Nuriyani, "was offered to this world by her-L father, the Prophet Muhammad, as the complete example ofwomanhood." In fulfilling her maternal duties and upholding her religion, Nuriyani asserted, Fatima performed her obligations with steadfastness and decorum, all the while guarding her chastity (1945:1-2). Nuriyani, the editor of a newly founded Per-sian journal with an Islamic bent, sought social reform in I…
Patriotic Womanhood: The Culture of Feminism in Modern Iran, 1900–1941
Hallmarks of Humanism: Hygiene and Love of Homeland in Qajar Iran
Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946
City of the Dead”: The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
Picturing the homeland: Geography and national identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iran
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in geography as an ideologically loaded discourse about the world and its inhabitants which has operated both within and beyond educational institutions. Particular attention has been paid to the complex relationships between geography and imperialism, militarism and nationalism. For the most part, these studies have focused on the development of a western geographical imagination in Europe and N…
Fragile Frontiers: The Diminishing Domains of Qajar Iran
Long before the French Revolution, an anonymous geographer of the 10th century had already imagined the “boundaries of the world”—( ḥudūd al-ʿālam )—as comprising distinct regions. According to this unknown figure, each territory varied from another “First, by the difference of water, air, soil, and temperature ( garma-va-sarma ). Secondly, by the difference of religion, law ( sharīʿat ) and beliefs ( kīsh ). Thirdly, by the difference of words (…
Patriotic Womanhood: The Culture of Feminism in Modern Iran, 1900–1941
The Politics of Reproduction: Maternalism and Women's Hygiene in Iran, 1896–1941
Travelers to Iran in the 19th century often decried the startling rate of infant mortality. Writing in 1856, Lady Mary Sheil, wife of the British envoy to Persia, Sir Justin Sheil, remarked that “the mortality among children is immense, owing to neglect, ignorance, and laziness.” Citing the Shah's French physician, Sheil continued: “Dr. Cloquet ... expressed to me his conviction that not above three children in ten outlived their third year.” She…
Picturing the homeland: Geography and national identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iran
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in geography as an ideologically loaded discourse about the world and its inhabitants which has operated both within and beyond educational institutions. Particular attention has been paid to the complex relationships between geography and imperialism, militarism and nationalism. For the most part, these studies have focused on the development of a western geographical imagination in Europe and N…
Fragile Frontiers: The Diminishing Domains of Qajar Iran
Long before the French Revolution, an anonymous geographer of the 10th century had already imagined the “boundaries of the world”—( ḥudūd al-ʿālam )—as comprising distinct regions. According to this unknown figure, each territory varied from another “First, by the difference of water, air, soil, and temperature ( garma-va-sarma ). Secondly, by the difference of religion, law ( sharīʿat ) and beliefs ( kīsh ). Thirdly, by the difference of words (…
The Haves and the Have Nots: A Historical Study of Disability in Modern Iran
This essay provides a historical analysis of Iranian experiences with disability. I will begin by reviewing the literary application of the term in various contexts. Next, I will examine the social milieux in which local observers, medical professionals, and policy makers talked about and treated disability. As state-run institutions emerged to address disability needs, health professionals often drew a distinction between physical disability and…
Who Is Fatima? Gender, Culture, and Representation in Islam
quot;T^atima, " observed Nusrat Allah Nuriyani, "was offered to this world by her-L father, the Prophet Muhammad, as the complete example ofwomanhood." In fulfilling her maternal duties and upholding her religion, Nuriyani asserted, Fatima performed her obligations with steadfastness and decorum, all the while guarding her chastity (1945:1-2). Nuriyani, the editor of a newly founded Per-sian journal with an Islamic bent, sought social reform in I…
A Nation in Turmoil, A Field in Crisis: The Upshots of Woman, Life, Freedom”
By now, it is well known that the murder of the Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, last fall sparked nationwide protests in Iran. Aside from Jina, many other young protestors were killed, imprisoned, or permanently disabled, as security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran began blinding demonstrators by firing rubber bullets at their eyes. 1 These ghastly scenes were accompanied by other disturbing and violent acts that included the raiding of u…
Freedom Springs Eternal
Revolutions are chaotic affairs. In February 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers declared victory, Iran's future seemed uncertain. After a long night of hostility and bloodshed, an eerie silence fell on Tehran, and in some corners fear supplanted exhilaration. Those of us who witnessed these historic events did not fully fathom what Islamic politics augured. Within weeks, on the occasion of International Women's Day, it became clear t…
American Crosses, Persian Crescents: Religion and the Diplomacy of US–Iranian Relations, 1834–1911
The American public came to know Iran through its missionaries who had lived among the Persians. For their part, Iranians grew familiar with Americans through interactions with these missionary pioneers as well. While American Presbyterians quickly established and expanded their institutional presence in the country, it became abundantly clear to them that Muslim converts to Protestantism remained few and far between. Missionary perceptions of Ir…
City of the Dead”: The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
Fragile Frontiers: The Diminishing Domains of Qajar Iran
Long before the French Revolution, an anonymous geographer of the 10th century had already imagined the “boundaries of the world”—( ḥudūd al-ʿālam )—as comprising distinct regions. According to this unknown figure, each territory varied from another “First, by the difference of water, air, soil, and temperature ( garma-va-sarma ). Secondly, by the difference of religion, law ( sharīʿat ) and beliefs ( kīsh ). Thirdly, by the difference of words (…
City of the Dead”: The Frontier Polemics of Quarantines in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
Picturing the homeland: Geography and national identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iran
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in geography as an ideologically loaded discourse about the world and its inhabitants which has operated both within and beyond educational institutions. Particular attention has been paid to the complex relationships between geography and imperialism, militarism and nationalism. For the most part, these studies have focused on the development of a western geographical imagination in Europe and N…
Hallmarks of Humanism: Hygiene and Love of Homeland in Qajar Iran
Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946
Who Is Fatima? Gender, Culture, and Representation in Islam
quot;T^atima, " observed Nusrat Allah Nuriyani, "was offered to this world by her-L father, the Prophet Muhammad, as the complete example ofwomanhood." In fulfilling her maternal duties and upholding her religion, Nuriyani asserted, Fatima performed her obligations with steadfastness and decorum, all the while guarding her chastity (1945:1-2). Nuriyani, the editor of a newly founded Per-sian journal with an Islamic bent, sought social reform in I…
Patriotic Womanhood: The Culture of Feminism in Modern Iran, 1900–1941
A Reply to Camron Michael Amin
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Reproduction: Maternalism and Women's Hygiene in Iran, 1896–1941
Travelers to Iran in the 19th century often decried the startling rate of infant mortality. Writing in 1856, Lady Mary Sheil, wife of the British envoy to Persia, Sir Justin Sheil, remarked that “the mortality among children is immense, owing to neglect, ignorance, and laziness.” Citing the Shah's French physician, Sheil continued: “Dr. Cloquet ... expressed to me his conviction that not above three children in ten outlived their third year.” She…
The Haves and the Have Nots: A Historical Study of Disability in Modern Iran
This essay provides a historical analysis of Iranian experiences with disability. I will begin by reviewing the literary application of the term in various contexts. Next, I will examine the social milieux in which local observers, medical professionals, and policy makers talked about and treated disability. As state-run institutions emerged to address disability needs, health professionals often drew a distinction between physical disability and…
Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran
The role of women in Iran has commonly been viewed solely through the lens of religion, symbolized by veiled females subordinated by society. In this work, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, an Iranian-American historian, aims to explain how the role of women has been central to national political debates in Iran. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the book examines issues impacting women's lives under successive regimes, including hygiene campaigns that…
American Crosses, Persian Crescents: Religion and the Diplomacy of US–Iranian Relations, 1834–1911
The American public came to know Iran through its missionaries who had lived among the Persians. For their part, Iranians grew familiar with Americans through interactions with these missionary pioneers as well. While American Presbyterians quickly established and expanded their institutional presence in the country, it became abundantly clear to them that Muslim converts to Protestantism remained few and far between. Missionary perceptions of Ir…
Freedom Springs Eternal
Revolutions are chaotic affairs. In February 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers declared victory, Iran's future seemed uncertain. After a long night of hostility and bloodshed, an eerie silence fell on Tehran, and in some corners fear supplanted exhilaration. Those of us who witnessed these historic events did not fully fathom what Islamic politics augured. Within weeks, on the occasion of International Women's Day, it became clear t…
Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity
While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length study - until now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped this specialization, Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity shares innovative research and charts new areas of analysis from an array of scholars in the field. Delving into a wide range of theoretical and conceptual perspectives, the essays - all …
Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran
For over a decade Middle East studies has migrated into a somewhat predictable intellectual terrain: the field of ethnic and religious minority studies, especially in the United States. This emphasis reflects our zeitgeist given that the Middle East is riven by ethnic and sectarian conflict—a battle that has spilled into the West, where Muslim minorities must come to terms with the atrocities of their co-religionists as they struggle to confront …
The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization, Diplomacy, and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran
In 1946, the entertainer and activist Paul Robeson pondered America's intentions in Iran. In what was to become one of the first major crises of the Cold War, Iran was fighting a Soviet aggressor that did not want to leave. Robeson posed the question, “Is our State Department concerned with protecting the rights of Iran and the welfare of the Iranian people, or is it concerned with protecting Anglo-American oil in that country and the Middle East…
A Sestina in 1979
POETRY Firoozeh KashaniSabet is a novelist and a professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her creative work follows the treacherous path of politics by intruding into people’s personal lives and private spaces. Through her poems and stories, she explores some of the themes of her academic research, including alienation, prejudice, power, love, and violence. A Note on “A Sestina in 1979” by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Afte…
Introduction: Activism, Scholarship, and Shaping History
The idea for this roundtable emerged from a special session held at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) in Denver in December 2022. As nationwide protests swept over Iran, many MESA members voiced support for organizing a public conversation that addressed various aspects of the Woman, Life, Freedom (WLF, Zan, Zendegi, Azadi ) uprising. We thank MESA president, Eve Troutt Powell, for supporting this l…
A Nation in Turmoil, A Field in Crisis: The Upshots of Woman, Life, Freedom”
By now, it is well known that the murder of the Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, last fall sparked nationwide protests in Iran. Aside from Jina, many other young protestors were killed, imprisoned, or permanently disabled, as security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran began blinding demonstrators by firing rubber bullets at their eyes. 1 These ghastly scenes were accompanied by other disturbing and violent acts that included the raiding of u…
The Other Fight: Women's Suffrage and Iran's Oil Nationalization
Iran handed the world a surprise in 1951. That spring, its parliament voted to nationalize the country's lucrative petroleum industry. Euphoria spread as young Iranians tore down Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) signs and watched mighty Britain cower (temporarily) before the hero of Iran's oil nationalization, Mohammad Mosaddeq. Stunned by this brazenness, an American summary posed the question on the minds of many diplomats: “How did nine Persia…
Banning and Belonging: Sovereignty and Ethnicity in Bahrain and the Persian Gulf Coast, 1900–41
History (20 works) · Islamic Studies and History (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · History (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Ancient history (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)