The first, which began with the 1905 Constitutional Revolution and reached fruition during the 1920s and '30s with the rise of Reza Shah and the Pahlavi State, was a nation-building project, an attempt to construct an Iranian national identity along neoclassical lines, primarily by emphasizing Iran's pre-Islamic history. In this well-written and extremely engaging book, Afshin Marashi examines two early twentieth-century ideological projects pertaining to the modern history of Iran.
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