Being modern in Iran

Fabriba Adelkhah ; Translated From The French By Jonathan Derrick. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Through the Iranian example of life in the late-1990s, this text reviews the debate not merely about political Islam, but also about democratic transition and its relation to social change. Gobineau, in a celebrated passage about nineteenth-century Iran, said that the Persian state did not exist in reality, that the individual was everything: The state?