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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Critique of Religion as Political Critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda’s Pre-Islamic Xenology,” Intellectual History Review (Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months ago

Mīrzā Fatḥ ‘Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European Enlightenment political thought to modern Iranian society. This essay frames Ākhūndzāda’s text within a broader intellectual tradition. I read Ākhūndzāda as a radical reformer whose inte…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Is the ‘Hate’ in Hate Speech the ‘Hate’ in Hate Crime? Waldron and Dworkin on Political Legitimacy,” Jurisprudence (2019) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months ago

Among the most persuasive arguments against hate speech bans was made by Ronald Dworkin, who warned of the threat to political legitimacy posed by laws that deny those subject to them adequate opportunity for dissent. In his influential defence of hate speech bans, Jeremy Waldron addresses these objections. Dworkin’s concern with political l…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Review of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Charand-o Parand (2019) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months ago

Review of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Charand-o Parand. Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907–1909, Translated by Janet Afary and John R. Perry, in Iranian Studies
Sunil Sharma deposited ‘The Spring of Hindustan’: Love and War in the Monsoon in Indo-Persian Poetry in the group Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years ago

A study of the imagery of the monsoon season in the poetry of the classical poets Masud Sad Salman and Amir Khusrau.
Sunil Sharma deposited The Chameleonic Identities of Mohan Lal Kashmiri and His Travels in Persianate Lands in the group Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years ago

A close reading of parts of Mohan Lal Kashmiri’s travel account in English to Central Asia and Iran as a Persianate text.
Sunil Sharma deposited ‘The Spring of Hindustan’: Love and War in the Monsoon in Indo-Persian Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years ago

A study of the imagery of the monsoon season in the poetry of the classical poets Masud Sad Salman and Amir Khusrau.
Sunil Sharma deposited The Chameleonic Identities of Mohan Lal Kashmiri and His Travels in Persianate Lands on Humanities Commons 7 years ago

A close reading of parts of Mohan Lal Kashmiri’s travel account in English to Central Asia and Iran as a Persianate text.
Sunil Sharma created the group Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
Sunil Sharma deposited Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Mas’ud Sa’d Salman of Lahore on Humanities Commons 7 years ago

One of the earliest Persian poets in India, Masud Sad (d. 1121) was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, while his ancestral roots were in Hamadan, Iran. Most of his professional career was spent as a court poet in Lahore and Ghazna (in present-day Afghanistan). His true talent was brought out when he spent eighteen years in India, in prison and…[Read more]
Levi Thompson's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Regime Change Abroad, Fascism at Home: How US Interventions Paved the Way for Trump (Counterpunch, 2016) in the group War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

Will a Trump presidency help to bring an end to the status quo? This essay, first published on Counterpunch days after the 2016 election, considers that possibility with reference to the long history of US interventions abroad.
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Regime Change Abroad, Fascism at Home: How US Interventions Paved the Way for Trump (Counterpunch, 2016) on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

Will a Trump presidency help to bring an end to the status quo? This essay, first published on Counterpunch days after the 2016 election, considers that possibility with reference to the long history of US interventions abroad.
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group Translation & Activism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group Digital Books on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group Anarchism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Aaron Swartz’s Legacy” (Academe, 2014) on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group Prisons on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago

This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]
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Kamran Rastegar

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Kamran Rastegar

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