Afshin Matin‐Asgari
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Afshin Matin‐Asgari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Afshin |
| FAMILY NAME | Matin‐Asgari |
| SIGNATURE | ASGARI A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-6411-2263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Iranian Identity and National Oppression
During Iran's 2022–2023 countrywide uprising, the intensity of popular protests in Kurdistan and Baluchistan drew attention to the question of national oppression. Some scholars then revisited a debate, originally articulated in Marxist circles, on whether Iran's culturally and politically oppressed communities, like Azeris, Kurds, Baluchis or Arabs, are ethnic or national minorities. This article approaches the debate within the frame of nationa…
This Flame Within
Stephanie Cronin, Social Histories of Iran
Anonymous, Az Goruh-e Setareh ta Sazman-e Vahdat-e Komunisti
Anonymous, Az Goruh-e Setareh ta Sazman-e Vahdat-e Komunisti: Rahi be Raha'i [From the Star Group to the Organization of Communist Unity: A Road to Emancipation] (Vienna, Austria: Ketab-e Raha, 2022) - Volume 55 Issue 3
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar. Religious Statecraft
According to its preface, Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran aims to explain “the intricacies of factional politics, foreign policy, and the role of religion” during the four-decade rule of the Islamic Republic in Iran (ix). Working within the theoretical frames of international relations and comparative politics, the book’s real strength is its reliance on Persian-language primary sources, as well as some recently declassified U…
Both Eastern and Western
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result, analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution has become subsumed by this narrative. Here, Afshin Matin-Asgari proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history, challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historio…
Ali Mirsepassi. Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought
Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought continues and expands a theme that New York University sociologist Ali Mirsepassi has developed in his earlier works, namely, the attribution of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s official state ideology to “Western” countermodernity, particularly the ideas of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Though the book is presented as a study in intellectual “transnationalism,” the author in fact wants to show t…
CHAPTER 3 The Berlin Circle
The Academic Debate on Iranian Identity
This chapter briefly covers and comments on an ongoing scholarly debate on Iranian identity. Bypassing most of this debate's long history and complex politics, it will focus on its latest phase, from the early 1990s to the present, and only within the academic discipline of Iranian studies. The works examined here, whether in Persian or English, are mainly those published outside of Iran. To make this preliminary study manageable, it is assumed t…
From Social Democracy to Social Democracy
Modern Iran's Ideological Renegades
Pishdaramadi bar estebdad-salari dar Iran , [A Preface to Despotism in Iran], Ahmad Seyf, Tehran
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Twentieth century Iran's political prisoners
Twentieth century Iran exhibits one of the most notorious records in modern political repression, with tens of thousands of individuals being imprisoned, tortured or executed, especially during the
The Rise of Modern Subjectivity in Iran
God and Juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter with Modernity, Farzin Vahdat, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002, xviii +217 pp. Appendix to p. 40. Bibliography to p. 253. Index to p
Iranian postmodernity
Gozar az moderniteh? Nicheh, Fuko, Liotar, Derida [Beyond modernity? Nietzche, Foucalt, Lyotard, Derrida], by Shahrokh Haghighi. Tehran: Agah, 2001. 299 pages. The main element of the modernist int
Islamic studies and the spirit of Max Weber
Currently much intellectual effort, in academic circles as well as in the larger political and cultural arena, is devoted to probing many of the world's problems in terms of a clash between secular
The Intellectual Best-sellers of Post-Revolutionary Iran
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The transparent sphinx
Abbas Milani, The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 2000). 399 pages
Tehran Memoirs and Diaries
Research Article| August 01 2000 Tehran Memoirs and Diaries: Winter 1979 and Summer 1997 Afshin Matin-Asgari Afshin Matin-Asgari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 171–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-20-1-2-171 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Afshin Matin-Asgari; Tehran Memo…
The causes of Iran's backwardness
Zibakalam, Sadeq. Ma cheguneh ma shodim? risheyabi-e ‘elal-e’ ‘aqabmandegi dar Iran. 2d ed. (Tehran: Rowzaneh, 1996). 446 pages
С AbdoIkarim Sorush and the Secularization of Islamic Thought in Iran
a necessary prerequisite to democratization of religious government is to make religious thought more flexible by elevating the role of ‘reason’ in it; and that is not individual but collective reason, arising from the participation of all and benefiting from humanity's experiences; and this is possible only through democratic means. The Islamic Republic of Iran is seriously challenged by a secularizing intellectual force from within. It may seem…
Iran
Research Article| May 01 1995 Iran: Religious Revolution or Structural Realignment in State Formation? Afshin Matin-Asgari Afshin Matin-Asgari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 91–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-1-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Afshin Matin-Asgari; Iran: Religious Revolution or…
The Land Question and Islamic Revolution in Iran
Research Article| August 01 1993 The Land Question and Islamic Revolution in Iran Bernard Hourcade; Bernard Hourcade Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Afshin Matin-Asgari Afshin Matin-Asgari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 134–147. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-13-1_and_2-134 Views Icon Views Article contents F…
С AbdoIkarim Sorush and the Secularization of Islamic Thought in Iran
a necessary prerequisite to democratization of religious government is to make religious thought more flexible by elevating the role of ‘reason’ in it; and that is not individual but collective reason, arising from the participation of all and benefiting from humanity's experiences; and this is possible only through democratic means. The Islamic Republic of Iran is seriously challenged by a secularizing intellectual force from within. It may seem…
Iranian Identity and National Oppression
During Iran's 2022–2023 countrywide uprising, the intensity of popular protests in Kurdistan and Baluchistan drew attention to the question of national oppression. Some scholars then revisited a debate, originally articulated in Marxist circles, on whether Iran's culturally and politically oppressed communities, like Azeris, Kurds, Baluchis or Arabs, are ethnic or national minorities. This article approaches the debate within the frame of nationa…
The Intellectual Best-sellers of Post-Revolutionary Iran
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 Land Question and Islamic Revolution in Iran
Research Article| August 01 1993 The Land Question and Islamic Revolution in Iran Bernard Hourcade; Bernard Hourcade Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Afshin Matin-Asgari Afshin Matin-Asgari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 134–147. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-13-1_and_2-134 Views Icon Views Article contents F…
Iran
Research Article| May 01 1995 Iran: Religious Revolution or Structural Realignment in State Formation? Afshin Matin-Asgari Afshin Matin-Asgari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 91–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-1-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Afshin Matin-Asgari; Iran: Religious Revolution or…
С AbdoIkarim Sorush and the Secularization of Islamic Thought in Iran
a necessary prerequisite to democratization of religious government is to make religious thought more flexible by elevating the role of ‘reason’ in it; and that is not individual but collective reason, arising from the participation of all and benefiting from humanity's experiences; and this is possible only through democratic means. The Islamic Republic of Iran is seriously challenged by a secularizing intellectual force from within. It may seem…
The causes of Iran's backwardness
Zibakalam, Sadeq. Ma cheguneh ma shodim? risheyabi-e ‘elal-e’ ‘aqabmandegi dar Iran. 2d ed. (Tehran: Rowzaneh, 1996). 446 pages
Tehran Memoirs and Diaries
Research Article| August 01 2000 Tehran Memoirs and Diaries: Winter 1979 and Summer 1997 Afshin Matin-Asgari Afshin Matin-Asgari Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 171–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-20-1-2-171 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Afshin Matin-Asgari; Tehran Memo…
The transparent sphinx
Abbas Milani, The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 2000). 399 pages
Iranian postmodernity
Gozar az moderniteh? Nicheh, Fuko, Liotar, Derida [Beyond modernity? Nietzche, Foucalt, Lyotard, Derrida], by Shahrokh Haghighi. Tehran: Agah, 2001. 299 pages. The main element of the modernist int
Islamic studies and the spirit of Max Weber
Currently much intellectual effort, in academic circles as well as in the larger political and cultural arena, is devoted to probing many of the world's problems in terms of a clash between secular
The Intellectual Best-sellers of Post-Revolutionary Iran
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 Rise of Modern Subjectivity in Iran
God and Juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter with Modernity, Farzin Vahdat, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002, xviii +217 pp. Appendix to p. 40. Bibliography to p. 253. Index to p
Pishdaramadi bar estebdad-salari dar Iran , [A Preface to Despotism in Iran], Ahmad Seyf, Tehran
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
Twentieth century Iran's political prisoners
Twentieth century Iran exhibits one of the most notorious records in modern political repression, with tens of thousands of individuals being imprisoned, tortured or executed, especially during the
Modern Iran's Ideological Renegades
From Social Democracy to Social Democracy
The Academic Debate on Iranian Identity
This chapter briefly covers and comments on an ongoing scholarly debate on Iranian identity. Bypassing most of this debate's long history and complex politics, it will focus on its latest phase, from the early 1990s to the present, and only within the academic discipline of Iranian studies. The works examined here, whether in Persian or English, are mainly those published outside of Iran. To make this preliminary study manageable, it is assumed t…
CHAPTER 3 The Berlin Circle
Both Eastern and Western
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history and 'Western' modernity, between religion and secularity. As a result, analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution has become subsumed by this narrative. Here, Afshin Matin-Asgari proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history, challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historio…
Ali Mirsepassi. Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought
Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought continues and expands a theme that New York University sociologist Ali Mirsepassi has developed in his earlier works, namely, the attribution of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s official state ideology to “Western” countermodernity, particularly the ideas of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Though the book is presented as a study in intellectual “transnationalism,” the author in fact wants to show t…
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar. Religious Statecraft
According to its preface, Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran aims to explain “the intricacies of factional politics, foreign policy, and the role of religion” during the four-decade rule of the Islamic Republic in Iran (ix). Working within the theoretical frames of international relations and comparative politics, the book’s real strength is its reliance on Persian-language primary sources, as well as some recently declassified U…
Stephanie Cronin, Social Histories of Iran
Anonymous, Az Goruh-e Setareh ta Sazman-e Vahdat-e Komunisti
Anonymous, Az Goruh-e Setareh ta Sazman-e Vahdat-e Komunisti: Rahi be Raha'i [From the Star Group to the Organization of Communist Unity: A Road to Emancipation] (Vienna, Austria: Ketab-e Raha, 2022) - Volume 55 Issue 3
This Flame Within
Iranian Identity and National Oppression
During Iran's 2022–2023 countrywide uprising, the intensity of popular protests in Kurdistan and Baluchistan drew attention to the question of national oppression. Some scholars then revisited a debate, originally articulated in Marxist circles, on whether Iran's culturally and politically oppressed communities, like Azeris, Kurds, Baluchis or Arabs, are ethnic or national minorities. This article approaches the debate within the frame of nationa…
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