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dc.contributor.authorAnsari, A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-02T11:30:07Z
dc.date.available2021-08-02T11:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-07
dc.identifier274637688
dc.identifier47136b3e-9a9c-460e-b7e0-d5ebc01baeb8
dc.identifier85106173580
dc.identifier000669630900003
dc.identifier.citationAnsari , A 2021 , ' A royal romance : the cult of Cyrus the Great in modern Iran ' , Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , vol. 31 , no. 3 , pp. 405 - 419 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186321000195en
dc.identifier.issn1356-1863
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:57924DA955CDA539833259079AEF4F47
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23694
dc.description.abstractThis article looks at the continuing fascination with the idea of monarchy in Iran, dismissed and condemned after the revolution but gradually rehabilitated through an engagement with the Shahnameh and a reinvigorated interest in ancient Iran. The interest in Sasanian Iran, as the cradle for the development of Islamic civilisation, has in turn enabled a popular re-acquaintance with Achaemenid Iran, previously frowned on for its association with Mohammad Reza Shah but legitimised by the enthusiastic endorsement of the figure of Cyrus the Great by President Ahmadinejad. This political myth of Cyrus the Great reflects the changing political dynamics of the Islamic Republic and the need to appropriate popular nationalist iconography to the state.
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dc.format.extent349254
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of the Royal Asiatic Societyen
dc.subjectAchaemenid Iranen
dc.subjectCyrus the Greaten
dc.subjectMonarchyen
dc.subjectNationalismen
dc.subjectPolitical mythen
dc.subjectSasanian Iranen
dc.subjectShahnamehen
dc.subjectDS Asiaen
dc.subjectJQ Political institutions Asiaen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subject.lccDSen
dc.subject.lccJQen
dc.titleA royal romance : the cult of Cyrus the Great in modern Iranen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Researchen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute for Transnational & Spatial Historyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1356186321000195
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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