Pahlavi Iran and the Politics of Occidentalism

Zhand Shakibi presents a new interpretation of the political and social dynamics of the last decade of the Shah''s rule that challenges the binary view of pro-West Shah and anti-West Ayatollah by drawing attention to the Pahlavi state''s reaction to the intellectual and societal backlash against cultural and moral Occidentalism in its last decade. Revising the dominant historiography of the Pahlav...