Description: Illuminates hitherto-understudied aspects of Iran's socio-political and socio-cultural history.
Brief description: H. E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History Emeritus at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. He is the author of Onomastic Reform: Family Names and State Building in Iran (2020), Culture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (2018), Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 Years (2006) and Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990).
Review Quotes: This is a splendid collection of rich and stimulating essays by some of the foremost scholars of modern Iran. A fitting tribute to Ervand Abrahamian, whose wide-ranging scholarship over the past six decades has profoundly enriched our understanding of twentieth century Iranian political, social and cultural history.--Robert Steele, Austrian Academy of Sciences