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The American Analysis of Iranian Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

James A. Bill
James A. Bill*
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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The rich subtlety of the Iranian political process has long defied scholarly attempts to comprehend and explain. Native Iranian writings have been stunted both by a traditional tendency to stress chronology over analysis as well as by sociopolitical deterrents that have deflected the academic searchlight away from the political system. European scholarship has seldom focused directly upon the Iranian polity but has instead preoccupied itself with history very broadly conceived. This historical discussion has closely followed the Persian sources both in method and substance. This thrust has been joined with the European concern with formal-legal structures and cultural determinants. The result has often been descriptive history in which the political component has been ultimately viewed as a by-product of cultural traits, religious heritage, or the idiosyncracies of particular political actors.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , Summer 1977 , pp. 164 - 195
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1977

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