Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism Book

	Illustrations
	Prologue
	Acknowledgments
	A Note on the Text
1	Other-ness, Orientalism, Orientalism in Reverse, and Nativism	1
	On Other-ness	1
	On Orientalism	6
	On Orientalism in Reverse	10
	On Nativism	14
2	The Other-ing of a Rentier State	20
	On Intellectuals	20
	The Legitimation Crisis of a Rentier State	25
	The Secular Militants	34
	The Literati	42
3	The Other-ing of the West	52
	Seyyed Fakhroddin Shadman: The Forgotten Historian	54
	Ahmad Fardid: The Oral Philosopher	63
	Jalal Al-e Ahmad: The Bohemian Belletrist	65
4	The Clerical Subculture	77
	Historical Ambiance	78
	Ideological Vigilance	85
	Educational Edification	90
	Transmutation of Theology	94
5	Lay Religious Intellectuals	99
	Mashhad: A Microcosm of Iranian Religious Life	100
	Ali Shari'ati: The Aspiring Luther	105
	Mojahedin-e Khalq: The Religious Militants	116
	Seyyed Hoseyn Nasr: The Theosophist Mandarin	120
6	Academic Nativism	131
	Academia	131
	Ehsan Naraqi: The Nativist Sociologist	136
	Hamid Enayat: The Pensive Political Scientist	140
	Daryush Shayegan: The Gypsy Philosopher	147
7	Debates in the Postrevolutionary Era	156
	Defining the West	159
	Historicism versus Positivism	163
	Traditional versus Dynamic Jurisprudence	165
8	Epilogue	176
	Appendix: Catalogue of Iranian Intellectual and Political Figures	185
	Glossary	217
	Works Cited	221
	Index	241