Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2023235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohamad |
| FAMILY NAME | Tavakoli-Targhi |
| SIGNATURE | TAVAKOLI-TARGHI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historiography and Crafting Iranian National Identity
Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia
Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia
Refashioning Iran
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scho
The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity
This article explores modernity as an ethos, rather than a historical period, allowing us to reconstruct joint Indian and Iranian 'stories vanished from memory'. The story this article traces is the flourishing of the sciences in Persian during the first three decades of the 19th century at a time when Mughal India was seen to be in a state of decline. This article argues that the texts were rendered 'homeless' by their lack of inclusion into eit…
Going Public
(2000). Going Public: Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland in Iranian Nationalist Discourses. Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 175-200
Contested Memories of Pre-Islamic Iran
The conquest of Iran by Islam and the subordination of its history to an Islamicate version did not go uncontested. The intellectual movement of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries inspired by Azar Kayvan, who went into self-exile in Mughal India to escape the persecution of the Safavid regime at home, constructed a powerful Iran-centred universal history begin ning with the pre-Adamite, Mahabad. The Biblical-Qur'anic domination wa…
Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts
Contested Memories
The historical accounts of pre-Islamic Iran have diverse allegorical meanings. These meanings are embedded in narrative structures that terminate in the Muslim conquest of Iran and the death of Yazdigird III (d. 31/651 or 652), the last Sasanian king. In early “Islamicate” historiography, the accounts of ancient Iran served as an allegory of the Persian (differentially identified as Furs, 'Ajam, and Majūs) submission to Islam. The narrative termi…
Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia
Research Article| May 01 1996 Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia. Comparative Studies of South As…
The Persian Gaze and Women of the Occident
Research Article| August 01 1991 The Persian Gaze and Women of the Occident Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Department of History, Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 21–31. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-11-1_and_2-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mohamad …
Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia
Research Article| May 01 1996 Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia. Comparative Studies of South As…
Contested Memories
The historical accounts of pre-Islamic Iran have diverse allegorical meanings. These meanings are embedded in narrative structures that terminate in the Muslim conquest of Iran and the death of Yazdigird III (d. 31/651 or 652), the last Sasanian king. In early “Islamicate” historiography, the accounts of ancient Iran served as an allegory of the Persian (differentially identified as Furs, 'Ajam, and Majūs) submission to Islam. The narrative termi…
The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity
This article explores modernity as an ethos, rather than a historical period, allowing us to reconstruct joint Indian and Iranian 'stories vanished from memory'. The story this article traces is the flourishing of the sciences in Persian during the first three decades of the 19th century at a time when Mughal India was seen to be in a state of decline. This article argues that the texts were rendered 'homeless' by their lack of inclusion into eit…
Contested Memories of Pre-Islamic Iran
The conquest of Iran by Islam and the subordination of its history to an Islamicate version did not go uncontested. The intellectual movement of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries inspired by Azar Kayvan, who went into self-exile in Mughal India to escape the persecution of the Safavid regime at home, constructed a powerful Iran-centred universal history begin ning with the pre-Adamite, Mahabad. The Biblical-Qur'anic domination wa…
The Persian Gaze and Women of the Occident
Research Article| August 01 1991 The Persian Gaze and Women of the Occident Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Department of History, Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 21–31. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-11-1_and_2-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mohamad …
Contested Memories
The historical accounts of pre-Islamic Iran have diverse allegorical meanings. These meanings are embedded in narrative structures that terminate in the Muslim conquest of Iran and the death of Yazdigird III (d. 31/651 or 652), the last Sasanian king. In early “Islamicate” historiography, the accounts of ancient Iran served as an allegory of the Persian (differentially identified as Furs, 'Ajam, and Majūs) submission to Islam. The narrative termi…
Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia
Research Article| May 01 1996 Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-16-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia. Comparative Studies of South As…
Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts
Contested Memories of Pre-Islamic Iran
The conquest of Iran by Islam and the subordination of its history to an Islamicate version did not go uncontested. The intellectual movement of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries inspired by Azar Kayvan, who went into self-exile in Mughal India to escape the persecution of the Safavid regime at home, constructed a powerful Iran-centred universal history begin ning with the pre-Adamite, Mahabad. The Biblical-Qur'anic domination wa…
Going Public
(2000). Going Public: Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland in Iranian Nationalist Discourses. Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 175-200
Refashioning Iran
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scho
The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity
This article explores modernity as an ethos, rather than a historical period, allowing us to reconstruct joint Indian and Iranian 'stories vanished from memory'. The story this article traces is the flourishing of the sciences in Persian during the first three decades of the 19th century at a time when Mughal India was seen to be in a state of decline. This article argues that the texts were rendered 'homeless' by their lack of inclusion into eit…
Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia
Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia
Historiography and Crafting Iranian National Identity
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