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Iran and the Challenge of Diversity : Islamic Fundamentalism, Aryanist Racism, and Democratic Struggles /

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This interrogates the racist construction of Aria and Aryanism in an Iranian context, arguing that these concepts gave the Indo-European speaking Persian ethnic group an advantage over Iran's non-Persian nationalities and communities.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asgharzadeh, Alireza (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Ethnicity Studies.
Human rights.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Political Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Sociology of Religion.
Equality.
Ethnicity.
Ethnology > Middle East.
Political sociology.
Religion and sociology.
Social sciences.
Social structure.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This interrogates the racist construction of Aria and Aryanism in an Iranian context, arguing that these concepts gave the Indo-European speaking Persian ethnic group an advantage over Iran's non-Persian nationalities and communities.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages)
ISBN:9780230604889
DOI:10.1057/9780230604889