Abbas Vali

Biographic Data

ID4121286
NAMEAbbas Vali
GIVEN NAMESAbbas
FAMILY NAMEVali
SIGNATUREVALI A
AFFILIATIONSSwansea University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
H-INDEX3

  • The Kurds and Their “Others”: Fragmented Identity and Fragmented Politics

    Abbas ValiARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…1998Cited by: 23

    Research Article| August 01 1998 The Kurds and Their "Others": Fragmented Identity and Fragmented Politics Abbas Vali Abbas Vali Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (2): 82–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-18-2-82 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Abbas Vali; The Kurds and Their "Others": Fragmented Identity an…

  • Writing Iranian history, objective truths and discursive constructs: A reply to reviewers

    Abbas ValiARTICLECritique Critical Middle Eastern…1996

  • Nationalism and Kurdish Historical Writing

    Open AccessAbbas ValiARTICLENew Perspectives on Turkey1996Cited by: 9References: 5

    No ideology needs history so much as nationalism. History is indispensable to its romantic narrative, essentialist conceptual structure and apocalyptic claim to truth. Nationalist discourse is historicist; it relies on genealogy for the legitimation of the nationalist cause, on the historicization of the national origin for the affirmation of the self and the denial of the other. But history is also the Achilles heel of nationalism. Nationalist h…

  • The making of Kurdish identity in Iran

    Abbas ValiARTICLECritique Critical Middle Eastern…1995

    (1995). The making of Kurdish identity in Iran. Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 1-22

  • Pre-capitalist Iran: A Theoretical History

    Abbas ValiBOOKPre-capitalist Iran1993

    What kind of society was Iran before the constitutional revolution of 1906, feudal or despotic and ‘asiatic’? In this book, the first of its kind, Dr Vali critically assesses both arguments, examining the works of high social theory from which this long-running controversy derives and developing new concepts for the analysis of state and social relations in pre-capitalist Iran. He also paints an illuminating portrait of politics and society in Qa…

  • Factionalism and political discourse in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Case of the Hujjatiyeh Society

    Abbas Vali, Sami ZubaidaARTICLEEconomy and Society1985Cited by: 3References: 2

    The revolutionary Islamic government of Iran is dominated by clerical forces organised for the most part in the Islamic Republic Party. After defeating and banishing its secular opponents, notably the first President of the Republic, Bani-Sadr, the clerical party and regime developed factional struggles within their ranks. The issue of these struggles is what we consider to be the central dilemma of the revolutionary regime: the radical, populist…