A new perspective on Iranian politics and culture in the 1960s-1970s documenting the 'Westoxification' discourses adopted by the Pahlavi State.

Ali Mirsepassi is the Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Gallatin and in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University where he is also the director of the Iranian Studies Initiative. He is the author of numerous books including Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism (Cambridge, 2014), Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid (Cambridge, 2017), Iran's Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy (Cambridge, 2018) and co-editor of The Global Middle East series, with Arshin Adib-Moghaddam.

Introduction. The Quiet Revolution; 1. The 'Anti-Modern' allure; 2. De-politicizing Westoxification: the case of 'Bonyad monthly'; 3. Ehsan Naraghi: chronicle of a man for all seasons; 4. Iranian cinema's 'Quiet Revolution '(1960s-70s); 5. 'Bearing witness' to Iranian modernities; 6. The Shah: a modern mystic?; 7. The imaginary invention of a nation: Iran in 1930s and 1970s; 8. An elective affinity: variations of Gharbzadegi.