Part I: Iranian Intellectuals,Nationalism and State: from Qajar to Early Pahlavi Chapter 1: Amir Kabir: A Reformist and Pioneer of Modernization in the Traditional State Chapter 2: Crafitng Iranian National Imaginary:The Interwar Period (1918-1935) Chapter 3: British Whiggism and the Iranian Enlightenment in the 19th CenturyPartt II: Iranian Intellectuals:Between Traditional Values and Modern State Chapter 4: Third-Worldist Iranian intellectuals: Shariati and Ale-AhmadChapter 5: Sadeq Hedayat: Iranian Fiction and the Experience of Modernity Chapter 6: Rethinking the Legacy of Intellectual-Statesmen in Iran Part III: Women Intellectuals in Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Iran Chapter 7: Women’s rights in Iran’s experiment with modernity Chapter 8: “And, here I am,” Forugh Farrokhzad and Modernity Chapter 9: Simin Daneshvar: The Forging of an Intellectual Part IV: Iranian Left: From Marxist Intellectualism to Revolutionary Romanticism Chapter 10: The perplexity of the Iranian Marxist Intellectuals in this 1960s and 1970s Chapter 11: Intellectual Statesmen and the Making of Iran’s Illiberal Nation-State(1921-1926)