Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
IntroductionPart 1: Counter-Imagining Islam and IranIslams
1. In the Absence of the Face
2. Shi'ism as Paradox
3. Counter-Imagining the SacredIslamic Ideology
4. The Power of Interpretation
5. Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim IntellectualIran
6. On Nations Without Borders
7. Khomeini's RevolutionPart 2: Emancipatory AestheticsPoetic Revolutions
8. Nima Yushij and the Constitution of a National Subject
9. Forugh Farrokhzad and the Formative Forces of Iranian CultureCinematic Palpitations
10. Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf
11. On Signs and SignationNew Global Visual Arts
12. Whither Iranian Cinema? The Perils and Promises of Globalization
13. It was in China, Late One Moonless NightHamid Dabashi: A Select Bibliography
Index