Browsing DĀNESH: The OU Undergraduate Journal of Iranian Studies by Author "Kuyon, Kayleigh"
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Reworking Westoxification: Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Original Conception of Westoxification and its Post-Revolutionary Reinvention Undergraduate
Crynes, Aubrey (2019-03)On October 19th, 2016, the Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, posted an image on Instagram that depicts Uncle Sam standing in front of what appears to be a club-like entrance blocked off by red ... -
Ritual Impurity and the Decline of the Safavid Dynasty Undergraduate
Ball, Caleb (2018)The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of the Safavid dynasty and the establishment of Iran as a stronghold of Shi'a Islam. The body of research on these two centuries of Persian history provides us with a ... -
Spread of Shiʻism in Safavid Iran : religion and politics under Shah Ismail and Shah Tahmasp Undergraduate
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The Alternating Allegiances of the Ulama: Clerical Participation in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11 Undergraduate
Bray, Mathew (2019-09)In the summer of 1906, a group of theology students and other constitutionalists gathered in Tehran for what was expected to be a peaceful protest in favor of government reforms, a continuation of the nascent Constitutional ... -
The Evolution of Gender Equality in Modern Iran Undergraduate
Eisenmann, Lindsey (2018)Earlier this fall in Iran, there was a bit of uproar as the Iranian football team faced Syria in Iran. While women were initially able to purchase tickets, they were barred from entering the game and left outside to watch ... -
The Politics of Fashion in the Islamic Republic of Iran Undergraduate
Warrington, Sydney (2018)In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world's only existing theocracy, the relationship between the state and society cannot exist mutually exclusive of one another, considering that the regime's legitimacy is contingent ... -
The Question of Women's Agency in Iranian Cinema Undergraduate
Walker, Alexis (2018)Trying to pinpoint individual acts of agency within cinema can be difficult. This is especially true within Iranian cinema because agency takes different forms than viewers would assume. The term agency itself is ambiguous. ... -
The Value of Virtue: Depictions of Class and Morals in Iranian Cinema Undergraduate
Crynes, Aubrey (2018)The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is no stranger to cinema's ability to encourage values and moral standards in a society. Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has recognized the power of cinema and, in ... -
Tur and Iraj: Azeri Turks and ‘Persian’ Iran Undergraduate
McAbee, Daniel (2019-07)Despite the prominence of the Middle East and Islamic world in Western news media, it is a region that suffers from severe misunderstanding. Out of the countries in those regions, Iran is perhaps the most poorly understood ... -
Zoroastrians: Becoming a Minority in Their Homeland Undergraduate
Kepler, Travis (2018)It is arguable that no other religion has had more direct and indirect influence on humankind than that of the ancient Zoroastrian faith. This religion, which was the firstborn of the revealed world-religions, existed long ...