Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- Social learning at the international level -- Environmental principles as abstract or open-textured norms -- Abstract and open-texted norms and social learning -- The function and role of environmental principles -- Power, environmental principles and the International Court of Justice -- The global compact, environmental principles and culture -- Arguments, bargains and the disposal of carbon dioxide at sea -- Global governance of the environment : the role and function of environmental principles in changing international law and politics

Intro -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. To Bombay and Back: Arbab Kaykhosrow Shahrokh and the Reinvention of Iranian Zoroastrianism -- Chapter 2. Patron and Patriot: Dinshah J. Irani, Parsi Philanthropy, and the Revival of Indo-Iranian Culture -- Chapter 3. Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932 -- Chapter 4. Ebrahim Purdavud and His Interlocutors: Parsi Patronage and the Making of the Vernacular Avesta -- Chapter 5. Sword of Freedom: Abdulrahman Saif Azad and Interwar Iranian Nationalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Exploring the management of 'truth' in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this book aims to investigate the ways in which the official 'truth' is constructed and institutionalised in the country. The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia argues that there are two interrelated notions which articulate the ways in which 'truth' is conceptualised in Islam. One, at macro level, constitutes the trans-historical foundational principles of the religion, a set of engrained beliefs, which establish the 'finality', and 'oneness' of Islam in relation to other competing narratives.

Introduction -- Staging the nation : city, ceremony, and legitimation in late Qajar Iran -- Nationalizing pre-Islamic Iran : the return of the archaic and the authentication of modernity -- The pedagogic state : education and nationalism under Reza Shah -- Nation and memory : commemorations and the construction of national memory under Reza Shah -- Conclusion