Nader Sohrabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 245232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nader Sohrabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nader |
| FAMILY NAME | Sohrabi |
| SIGNATURE | SOHRABI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5006-4729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Writing Revolution as if Women Mattered
Women took part in revolutions and appear in their historical sources with more frequency than our interpretations of revolutions-as-revolutions reflect. Sources are replete with women who both moved through spaces of revolution and shaped these spaces through their movements, spaces without which revolutions as movements of people—and not just production and consumption of ideas—would be impossible. This article argues that writing revolutions a…
Remembering the Palestine Group
The Palestine Group was a loosely connected collection of young anti-Shah activists some of whom were arrested and tried publically in 1970 for the crime of acting against the Pahlavi monarchy and Iran's national security. Their plight became global, receiving support from anticolonial figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre. But while they played an important role in inspiring the revolutionary generation, in the historiography of the 1979 revolution a…
Reluctant Nationalists, Imperial Nation-State, and Neo-Ottomanism
Nationalism's role in the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire is re-examined. Traditionalists blamed the breakdown on the extreme nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) while today's orthodoxy attributes it to the external contingency of the Balkan Wars and World War I instead. This article looks at the onerous state-building and mild nation-building demands put forth by the CUP toward the Albanians. The Albanian resistance created …
The "problem space" of the historiography of the 1979Iranian Revolution
This paper is an examination of the historiography of the 1979 revolution in Iran with the goal of highlighting aspects of the history that are marginalized or remain unwritten. It identifies two dominant strands in the historiography: scholarship produced inside Iran and scholarship produced outside of it, particularly in the United States. Borrowing from David Scott, it argues that the same anti-colonial "problem space" has shaped both strands,…
Ghosts of Revolution
Book Review| July 01 2014 Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran by Shahla Talebi Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran, Talebi, Shahla. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. 254 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-7201-3. Naghmeh Sohrabi Naghmeh Sohrabi Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 155–158. https:/…
Conclusion
Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign!” —T. S. Eliot, “Gerontion” The question that remains to be answered is, to put it rather bluntly, “so what?” Even assuming the persuasiveness of the arguments made in this book regarding Qajar travel literature to Europe, what broader historical understanding does this interpretive framework provide historians and scholars? Part of the problem with answering this question is that this book is att…
Writing Travel, Making Genre
This chapter lays out the proposed theoretical framework for the book. It begins by evaluating the role of travelogues about Europe in Qajar historiography and suggests that a different interpretation of these texts can be reached by questioning the assumption that traveling equalled travel writing, that the genre of travelogues remained constant over the century, and that travel provided the primary site of observing and writing about Europe. Th…
Taken for WonderNineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe
This book focuses on travelogues by Iranians traveling to Europe in the nineteenth century. It argues for an interpretive framework that moves away from an overemphasis on the destinations of travel (particularly in cases where the destination, such as Europe, signifies larger meanings such as modernity) and that historicizes the travelogue itself as a rhetorical text in the service of its origin's concerns and developments. Within this framework…
Global Waves, Local Actors
Do revolutions affect one another? Certainly, in light of the Òvelvet revolutionsÓ of the past decade, the contagious effect of revolutions cannot be denied. Less remembered is the wave of constitutional revolutions of the early twentieth century that swept across Russia (1905), Iran (1906), the Ottoman Empire (1908), Mexico (1910), and China (1911). This short-term wave was couched within a long-term one that began with the American, Polish, and…
Imperial Classroom
Book Review| August 01 2001 Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire B C. F, (Oxford: Oxford University Press,2002). Pp. xvii + 280. $72. Nader Sohrabi Nader Sohrabi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 76–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-76 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video A…
Urban Unrest in the Middle East
Historicizing Revolutions
The Young Turk Revolution of 1908, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906, and the Russian Revolution of 1905 unfolded under the impact of the constitutional revolutionary paradigm. This article places these revolutions in a common historical context, arguing that their shared ideology and their method of capturing state power differentiate them from revolutions of later periods. After establishing that these revolutions belonged to the sa…
Fragile Resistance
Global Waves, Local Actors
Do revolutions affect one another? Certainly, in light of the Òvelvet revolutionsÓ of the past decade, the contagious effect of revolutions cannot be denied. Less remembered is the wave of constitutional revolutions of the early twentieth century that swept across Russia (1905), Iran (1906), the Ottoman Empire (1908), Mexico (1910), and China (1911). This short-term wave was couched within a long-term one that began with the American, Polish, and…
Historicizing Revolutions
The Young Turk Revolution of 1908, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906, and the Russian Revolution of 1905 unfolded under the impact of the constitutional revolutionary paradigm. This article places these revolutions in a common historical context, arguing that their shared ideology and their method of capturing state power differentiate them from revolutions of later periods. After establishing that these revolutions belonged to the sa…
The "problem space" of the historiography of the 1979Iranian Revolution
This paper is an examination of the historiography of the 1979 revolution in Iran with the goal of highlighting aspects of the history that are marginalized or remain unwritten. It identifies two dominant strands in the historiography: scholarship produced inside Iran and scholarship produced outside of it, particularly in the United States. Borrowing from David Scott, it argues that the same anti-colonial "problem space" has shaped both strands,…
Remembering the Palestine Group
The Palestine Group was a loosely connected collection of young anti-Shah activists some of whom were arrested and tried publically in 1970 for the crime of acting against the Pahlavi monarchy and Iran's national security. Their plight became global, receiving support from anticolonial figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre. But while they played an important role in inspiring the revolutionary generation, in the historiography of the 1979 revolution a…
Writing Revolution as if Women Mattered
Women took part in revolutions and appear in their historical sources with more frequency than our interpretations of revolutions-as-revolutions reflect. Sources are replete with women who both moved through spaces of revolution and shaped these spaces through their movements, spaces without which revolutions as movements of people—and not just production and consumption of ideas—would be impossible. This article argues that writing revolutions a…
Reluctant Nationalists, Imperial Nation-State, and Neo-Ottomanism
Nationalism's role in the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire is re-examined. Traditionalists blamed the breakdown on the extreme nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) while today's orthodoxy attributes it to the external contingency of the Balkan Wars and World War I instead. This article looks at the onerous state-building and mild nation-building demands put forth by the CUP toward the Albanians. The Albanian resistance created …
Imperial Classroom
Book Review| August 01 2001 Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire B C. F, (Oxford: Oxford University Press,2002). Pp. xvii + 280. $72. Nader Sohrabi Nader Sohrabi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 76–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-76 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video A…
Fragile Resistance
Urban Unrest in the Middle East
Historicizing Revolutions
The Young Turk Revolution of 1908, the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906, and the Russian Revolution of 1905 unfolded under the impact of the constitutional revolutionary paradigm. This article places these revolutions in a common historical context, arguing that their shared ideology and their method of capturing state power differentiate them from revolutions of later periods. After establishing that these revolutions belonged to the sa…
Imperial Classroom
Book Review| August 01 2001 Imperial Classroom: Islam, the State, and Education in the Late Ottoman Empire B C. F, (Oxford: Oxford University Press,2002). Pp. xvii + 280. $72. Nader Sohrabi Nader Sohrabi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 76–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-76 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video A…
Global Waves, Local Actors
Do revolutions affect one another? Certainly, in light of the Òvelvet revolutionsÓ of the past decade, the contagious effect of revolutions cannot be denied. Less remembered is the wave of constitutional revolutions of the early twentieth century that swept across Russia (1905), Iran (1906), the Ottoman Empire (1908), Mexico (1910), and China (1911). This short-term wave was couched within a long-term one that began with the American, Polish, and…
Conclusion
Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign!” —T. S. Eliot, “Gerontion” The question that remains to be answered is, to put it rather bluntly, “so what?” Even assuming the persuasiveness of the arguments made in this book regarding Qajar travel literature to Europe, what broader historical understanding does this interpretive framework provide historians and scholars? Part of the problem with answering this question is that this book is att…
Writing Travel, Making Genre
This chapter lays out the proposed theoretical framework for the book. It begins by evaluating the role of travelogues about Europe in Qajar historiography and suggests that a different interpretation of these texts can be reached by questioning the assumption that traveling equalled travel writing, that the genre of travelogues remained constant over the century, and that travel provided the primary site of observing and writing about Europe. Th…
Taken for WonderNineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe
This book focuses on travelogues by Iranians traveling to Europe in the nineteenth century. It argues for an interpretive framework that moves away from an overemphasis on the destinations of travel (particularly in cases where the destination, such as Europe, signifies larger meanings such as modernity) and that historicizes the travelogue itself as a rhetorical text in the service of its origin's concerns and developments. Within this framework…
Ghosts of Revolution
Book Review| July 01 2014 Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran by Shahla Talebi Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran, Talebi, Shahla. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011. 254 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-7201-3. Naghmeh Sohrabi Naghmeh Sohrabi Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 155–158. https:/…
Reluctant Nationalists, Imperial Nation-State, and Neo-Ottomanism
Nationalism's role in the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire is re-examined. Traditionalists blamed the breakdown on the extreme nationalism of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) while today's orthodoxy attributes it to the external contingency of the Balkan Wars and World War I instead. This article looks at the onerous state-building and mild nation-building demands put forth by the CUP toward the Albanians. The Albanian resistance created …
The "problem space" of the historiography of the 1979Iranian Revolution
This paper is an examination of the historiography of the 1979 revolution in Iran with the goal of highlighting aspects of the history that are marginalized or remain unwritten. It identifies two dominant strands in the historiography: scholarship produced inside Iran and scholarship produced outside of it, particularly in the United States. Borrowing from David Scott, it argues that the same anti-colonial "problem space" has shaped both strands,…
Remembering the Palestine Group
The Palestine Group was a loosely connected collection of young anti-Shah activists some of whom were arrested and tried publically in 1970 for the crime of acting against the Pahlavi monarchy and Iran's national security. Their plight became global, receiving support from anticolonial figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre. But while they played an important role in inspiring the revolutionary generation, in the historiography of the 1979 revolution a…
Writing Revolution as if Women Mattered
Women took part in revolutions and appear in their historical sources with more frequency than our interpretations of revolutions-as-revolutions reflect. Sources are replete with women who both moved through spaces of revolution and shaped these spaces through their movements, spaces without which revolutions as movements of people—and not just production and consumption of ideas—would be impossible. This article argues that writing revolutions a…
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