Transformation of 'Modernity' and Creation of 'Nation' in Iran

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370821
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: KURODA TAKASHI 東北大学, 国際文化研究科, 教授 (70195593)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 東洋史 / 西アジア史 / イラン近代史 / 比較交流史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Considering Iran in the broad sense (or as Persianate region) rather than Iran as a present nation-state, this project aims to explore how understanding and recognition of Persianate intellectuals' encounter with 'Modernity' was interpreted and transformed into coceptions of resistances against the domestic and foreign rule by focusing on the typical figures active outside of the borders. As a result of the investigaion, I could conclude that the early Muslim intellectuals had ambivalent attitudes toward 'Modernity' and 'Nation' was gradually created as a political actor in contrast to despotic 'Dynastic State'.

Free Research Field

人文学