Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction / Nikki R. Keddie -- Part I: Overviews -- 1. Iranian Culture and South Asia, 1500-1900 / Juan R. I. Cole -- 2. Beyond Translation: Interactions between English and Persian Poetry / Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak -- 3. Turk, Persian, and Arab: Changing Relationships between Tribes and State in Iran and along Its Frontiers / Thomas J. Barfield -- Part II: The Safavid, Qajar, and Pahlavi Periods -- 4. The Early Safavids and Their Cultural Interactions with Surrounding States / Abolala Soudavar -- 5. Suspicion, Fear, and Admiration: Pre-Nineteenth-Century Iranian Views of the English and the Russians / Rudi Matthee -- 6. The Quest for the Secret of Strength in Iranian Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature: Rethinking Tradition in the "Safarnameh" / Monica M. Ringer -- 7. Cultures of Iranianness: The Evolving Polemic of Iranian Nationalism / Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet -- 8. Foreign Education, the Women's Press, and the Discourse of Scientific Domesticity in Early-Twentieth-Century Iran / Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi -- Part III: Culture in the Islamic Republic in Relation to the World -- 9. International Connections of the Iranian Women's Movement / Nayereh Tohidi -- 10. The Presentation of the "Self" and the "Other" in Postrevolutionary Iranian School Textbooks / Golnar Mehran -- 11. Cinematic Exchange Relations: Iran and the West / Hamid Naficy -- Part IV: Political-Cultural Relations with the Muslim World -- 12. The Failed Pan-Islamic Program of the Islamic Republic: Views of the Liberal Reformers of the Religious "Semi-Opposition" / Wilfried Buchta -- 13. Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and Anxieties / Asef Bayat and Bahman Baktiari -- 14. The Iranian Revolution and Changes in Islamism in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan / Vali Nasr.

Part V: The Politics of Iran's International Relations -- 15. Iran's Foreign Policy: A Revolution in Transition / Gary Sick -- The Contributors -- Index.