Course Title: Modern Iran and the Gulf
Freedman, Lawrence and Efraim Karsh. The Gulf Conflict: 1990-1991. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Keddie, Nikki. Roots of Revolution. New Haven, 1981.
Menashri, David. Iran: A Decade of War and Revolution. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1990.
Morgan, D.O. Medieval Persia, 1040-1797. London, 1988.
Nakash, Yitzhak. The Shi`is of Iraq. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
All students must have an e-mail account and be willing and able to surf the world wide web for documents relevant to the class.
Bibliographical Guide to Iran. By Elwell-Sutton. N. Jersey, 1983.
Sept. 4 Orientation
Sept. 6 Land and People
Sept. 9 Social Structure in Safavid Iran
PART I: EARLY MODERN IRAN
Sept. 11 The Shi`ite Revival
Sept. 13 The Eighteenth Century
Sept. 16 Class Discussion
Sept. 18 Qajar Iran: Overview Part I
PART TWO: IRAN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Sept. 20 Qajar Iran: Overview Part II
Sept. 23 Reform from Above, 1848-1890
Sept. 25 Mainstream Shi`ite Institutions
Sept. 27 The Esoteric Challenge: The Shaykhi Movement
Sept. 30 Millenarianism: The Babi Revolts
Oct. 2 Tribes, Politics and Culture in 19th Century Iraq and Iran
Oct. 4 Al-Afghani and the Rise of Reformist Intellectuals
Oct. 7 Imagining Iran: The Beginnings of Nationalist
Thought
Oct. 9 Imperialism and Popular Protest: The Tobacco Revolt
PART THREE: FROM CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION TO WW II
Oct. 11 The Constitutional Revolution & Aftermath
Oct. 14 Modernization and Dictatorship under Reza Shah 1925-1941
Oct. 16 Class Discussion
Oct. 18 Midterm Examination
Oct. 21 Nationalism and Communism in the 1940s and 1950s
Oct. 23 Iranian Culture in the 1940s
Oct. 25 Film: Isfahan of Shah Abbas (Cole in Uzbekistan)
Oct. 28 Film: Temptation of Power (Cole in Uzbekistan)
Oct. 30 Film: Giant of the Gulf (Cole in Uzbekistan)
Nov. 1 Iraq and the Monarchy: The Case of the Shi`ites
Nov. 4 Uneven Development under Muhammad Reza Shah
Nov. 6 Cultural Developments in the 60s and 70s
Nov. 8 Class Discussion: Women in the Pahlevi Period
Nov. 11 The Political Opposition in the 60s and 70s
Nov. 13 Revolutionary Iraq
Nov. 18 The Islamic Revolution in Iran 1978-79
PART FIVE: THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION AND THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Nov. 20 The Struggle for the Course of the Revolution
Nov. 22 The Iran-Iraq War and the Great Terror
Nov. 25 The Emergence of a Stable Order
Nov. 27 Kuwait and Gulf Society Before the War (Film)
Dec. 2 Gulf War I
ALL TERM PAPERS DUE 2 DECEMBER (Late papers will be downgraded.)
Dec. 4 Gulf War II
Dec. 6 Gulf War and Aftermath: Class Discussion
Dec. 9 Examination Review Discussion
Thursday Dec. 19: Final Examination 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Instructor: Juan Cole
Office Hours: M & W., 2-3, 3615 Haven
E-Mail: jrcole@umich.edu
This course focuses on the social and cultural history of modern Iran and Iraq, covering: the early modern formation of the countries; the 19th century encounter with the West and its economic and intellectual results; and the twentieth-century struggles between despotism, theocracy, and constitutionalism in the shadow of petroleum and the Great Powers. It further covers the Islamic Revolution, the rise of Saddam Hussein, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Gulf War of 1991. The requirements of the course include a midterm and final essay examination and the writing of a term paper on some subject related to the modern Gulf (10 pages for undergraduates, 15-20 for graduate students).
Required Texts: (Available at Shaman Drum, 313 S. State St., Tel. 662-7407); and in Reserve Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Undergraduate Library.)
Resources for Studying Modern Iran:
Cambridge History of Iran. esp. vol. 6. Cambridge, 1986.
Encyclopaedia Iranica. Boston, 1982-; 7 vols. -
Index Islamicus. London, quarterly. Bibliography of periodical lit.
Iranian Studies. New York City. Quarterly academic journal.
See Cole Middle East Studies links on the World Wide Web for Iran links:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/
~jrcole/mideast.htm
CLASS TOPICS: INTRODUCTION
Morgan, Medieval Persia, 1-7.
Keddie, Roots of Revolution, ch. 1
Morgan, Medieval Persia, 101-137
(Class assignment: visit Isfahan on the World
Wide Web at http://tehran.stanford.edu/imagemap/esfahan.html; or http://www.anglia.ac.uk/~trochford/
isfahan.html; print off and bring
to class at least one picture from one of these sites).
Morgan, Medieval Persia, 137-149
Morgan, Medieval Persia, 149-161
Keddie, Roots, pp. 24-39
Keddie, Roots, pp. 40-47,
Keddie, Roots, pp. 52-62
Nakash, Shi`is of Iraq, pp. 141-154, 205-250
Cole, "Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i," (read on the World Wide
Web at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/ahsai1.htm )
Nabil Zarandi, Dawnbreakers, pp. 1-46
(read on the World Wide Web at http://www.bcca.org/
~kalantar/writings/authors/other/nabil/dawn.breakers/text.html)
Keddie, Roots of Revolution, pp. 48-52
Nabil Zarandi, Dawnbreakers, pp. 289-300, 532-553
(read on the World Wide Web at http://www.bcca.org/
~kalantar/writings/authors/other/nabil/dawn.breakers/
text.html)
Nakash, Shi`is of Iraq, pp. 25-48.
Keddie, Roots, pp. 186-195
Cole, "Marking Boundaries," (read on World Wide Web,
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/boundar.htm)
`Abdu’l-Baha, Secret of Divine Civilization, pp. 5-25, 64-67
(read on World Wide Web at http://www.bcca.org/~kalantar/
writings/authors/abdulbaha/sec.div.civ/index.html)
Keddie, Roots, pp. 63-69
Keddie, Roots, pp. 69-86
Keddie, Roots, pp. 86-112
Keddie, Roots, pp. 113-141
Keddie, Roots, 194-198
Nakash, Shi`is of Iraq, pp. 66-132
Keddie, Roots, pp. 142-182
Keddie, Roots, 200-230
Ali Shariati, "Art Awaiting the Savior,"
(Sample on the World Wide Web at
http://metro.turnpike.net/F/
fzaidi/savior.html)
Daneshvar, Requiem
Keddie, Roots, pp. 231-258
Menashri, Iran, 18-47.
Freedman and Karsh, Gulf Conflict, 3-41
Nakash, Shi`is of Iraq, 132-138
Menashri, Iran, 54-126
Menashri, Iran, 127-191, 217-227
Menashri, Iran, 192-216, 228-286
Menashri, Iran, pp. 287-361
Freedman and Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, pp. 42-109
Freedman and Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, pp. 110-198
Freedman and Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, pp. 299-361
Nakash, Shi`is of Iraq, pp. 269-281.
Freedman and Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, pp.362-442