Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- A note on transliteration -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The construction of Iranian national identity: an overview -- 3 Persian-Iranian national identity: the longue durée, from Achaemenid times onward -- 4 Four iterations of Persian literary nationalism -- 5 Intersectionality and the narrative of nationalism -- 6 Gendering the nation: masculinity and nationalism in Iran during the Constitutional Revolution -- 7 Nationalism and Islam in a provincial setting: late Qajar Isfahan -- 8 Iranian nationalism and the question of race -- 9 Nationalist representations of the Persian Gulf under Reza Shah Pahlavi -- 10 Iranian nationalism, Islamic unity and Shi'ism in Iran's regional policy: from the Pahlavis to the Islamic Republic -- 11 Surveying the 'Sheikhdoms' of the Persian Gulf, 1966-1973: newspaperman 'Abbas Mas'udi and the construction of Iranian nationalism in foreign policy -- 12 "True Muslims must always be tidy and clean": exoticism of the countryside in late Pahlavi Iran -- 13 "The Jew has a lot of money, too": representations of Jews in twentieth-century Iranian culture -- 14 Jewish intellectuals in Iran and their quest for Iranian national identity in the first half of the twentieth century -- 15 Pre-revolutionary Islamic discourse in Iran as nationalism: Islamism in Iran as nationalism -- 16 Nationalism and the Islamic Republic of Iran -- 17 Beyond boundaries: Iranian Azeris in an age of globalization -- 18 Guarding the nation: the Iranian revolutionary guards, nationalism and the Iran-Iraq War -- 19 From state to nation and from nation to state in Egypt: the role of the state in the formation of nationalism and the role of nationalism in the formation of the state, 1805-1952 -- Bibliography -- Index