Characteristics of Orientalist Historiography in Contemporary Iran (Qajar to Islamic Revolution)

A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Movements in Indonesia and the Islamic Revolution in Iran

Throughout history until today, the Islamic world has been witness to various movements which have been formed in response to special demands. The current article aims to address the similarities and differences between the political thought[1] of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and two movements in Indonesia namely the Nahdatul Ulama (NU) and the Muhammadiyah movements using a descriptive-compa...

Toward a Post-Orientalist Approach to Islamic Religious Studies

Contemporary Iran and University”Pioneer in knowledge": Promoters and deterrents (Emphasizing the Qajar, Pahlavi (First-Second) and Islamic Revolution periods)

Objective: The aim is to Identification of Promoters and Inhibitors Iranian University and to know the structural and contextual reasons for its realization or non-realization in the historical periods of "Qajar", "Pahlavi (first and second)" and "Islamic Revolution”. Methodology: In terms of research tradition, this research is qualitative, and in terms of purpose, it is practical, and in term...

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...

Women in Contemporary Islamic Society: A Study of Iran

With the overthrow of the Shah and the rise to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, Iran changed from a monarchy to an Islamic regime based on an Islamic Constitution and Islamic laws. As a result, a western stereotype of Iranian women as veiled and helpless creatures got created. This stereotypical view has dominated public opinion since 1979 in both Western societies in general, and among wes...

The Islamic Revolution of Iran and migration of physicians to the United States.

Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, the trend of migration of physicians from the country continued. The total number of Iranian physicians migrated to the United States (US) increased from 1625 before revolution in 1974, to 5045 in 2010, thirty years post-revolution. The percentage of medical graduates migrating to the US, in the same period dropped from 15% to 5%. The reasons fo...