Iran's Constitutional Revolution

Houchang E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. His previous publications include Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (I.B.Tauris), Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini and Politics, Society and Democracy: Comparative Studies (with Alfred Stepan). Vanessa Martin is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her previous publications include Islam and Modernism: The Iranian Revolution of 1906, Creating an Islamic State: Khomeini and the Making of a New Iran and The Qajar Pact: Bargaining Protest and the State in Nineteenth Century Iran (all with I.B.Tauris).

Acknowledgements - H. E. Chehabi and Vanessa Martin
Table of Contents
Contributors
A Note on Transliteration and Dates
Glossary of Persian and Arabic Terms

Introduction - Vanessa Martin

I - HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Whose Revolution? Stakeholders and Stories of the ‘Constitutional Movement’ in Iran, 1905-1911
- Joanna de Groot
2. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution as lieu(x) de mémoire: Sattar Khan
- Anja Pistor-Hatam
3. Introducing Georgian Sources for the Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911)
- Iago Gocheleishvili

II - STATE-BUILDING

4. Constitutional Rights and the Development of Civil Law in Iran, 1907-1941
- Ali Gheissari
5. The Constitutional Revolution, Popular Politics and State-Building in Iran
- Stephanie Cronin
6. Municipalities and Constitutionalism in Iran
- Reza Mokhtari Esfahani

III - CLASS, TRIBE, MYSTICS AND MINORITIES: IDEOLOGY AND BELIEF

7. Merchants, Class Identification Process and Constitutionalism
- Soheila Torabi Farsani
8. Tribes of the Homeland: The Bakhtiyari in the Revolutionary Press
- Arash Khazeni
9. Revolution and a High Ranking Sufi: Zahir al-Dowleh’s Contribution to the
Constitutional Movement
- Lloyd Ridgeon
10. The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: Imami Shiite Law and Iran’s
Constitutional Revolution
- Daniel Tsadik

IV - INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC INITIATIVES: PUBLIC AWAKENING

11. The Rowshanfekr in the Constitutional Period: an Overview
- Mangol Bayat
12. Crafting Constitutionalism: An Iranian Secular Modernist Project
- Nahid Mozaffari
13. Readership, the Press and the Public Sphere in the First Constitutional Era
- Negin Nabavi
14. Writing in Tehran: The First Freedom of Press Law
- Pardis Minuchehr
15. Constitutional Revolution and Persian Dramatic Works: An Observation on Social Relations Criticism in the Plays of the Constitutional Era (1906-1911)
- Ali Miransari
16. National Identity and Photographs of the Constitutional Revolution
- Reza Sheikh

V - TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

17. Mashrutiyat, Me?rutiyet, and Beyond: Intellectuals and the Constitutional Revolutions of 1905-12
- Charles Kurzman
18. Crafting Constitutional Narratives: Iranian and Young Turk Solidarity 1907-1909
- Farzin Vejdani
19. Constitutionalists Sans Frontières: Iranian Constitutionalism and its Asian Connections
- Touraj Atabaki
20. Mashruteh and al-Nahda: The Iranian Constitutional Revolution in the Iranian Diaspora Press of Egypt and in Arab Reformist Periodicals
- Kamran Rastegar
21. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution as Reported in the Chinese Press
- Yidan Wang
22. Japan and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
- Michael Penn

Epilogue

The Poetry of the Constitutional Revolution
- Homa Katouzian

Index