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ajiss-1207	Behbahani, Leyli I.	Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance By Shabnam J. Holliday (Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011, hbk. 180 pages.)	2012.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1168	35	27	By looking at the genealogy of tensions and dynamics between Irānīyat (referring to pre-Islamic Iran), Islāmīyat (referring to Islam, namely Persian Shi’i), and the Western influences in defining what it means to be Iranian, Holliday illustrates the roots of the “contemporary Iranian national identity” and “Iranian cosmopolitanism” (127). Chapter 1 begins with a theoretical discussion of Holliday’s discursive approach, which “allows for an analysis of multiple ideologies embedded in the multiple constructions of Iranian national identity” (11) and, there- by, the dynamics between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses pertaining to this identity.	cache/ajiss-1207.pdf	txt/ajiss-1207.txt