Marginalia on the Idea of Boundary and the Discourse on Identity

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_53
dc.contributor.author	Scarcia Amoretti Bianca Maria
dc.title	Marginalia on the Idea of Boundary and the Discourse on Identity in Iran
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The paper focuses on the theme of Iran and the frontier through five interconnected conceptual lenses, namely the broad notions of identity and identifications, the dyad Muslim/Persian and its relation with the third key denomination of ‘Arab’, the acculturative space of language, the meaningful role of the Ahl al-bayt and the Sayyids, and, finally, the meaningful polysemic place of waṭan, whose Western translation as ‘homeland’ notoriously posits several problems. More in general, a critical treatment of the all-seasons contrast between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ marks the whole discussion.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-08-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-101-0/marginalia-on-the-idea-of-boundary-and-the-discour/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/978-88-6969-100-3/012
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-101-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-100-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Diaspora
dc.subject	Diaspora
dc.subject	Frontier
dc.subject	Frontier
dc.subject	Sayyids
dc.subject	Sayyids

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Marginalia on the Idea of Boundary and the Discourse on Identity in Iran

Bianca Maria Scarcia Amoretti La Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

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The paper focuses on the theme of Iran and the frontier through five interconnected conceptual lenses, namely the broad notions of identity and identifications, the dyad Muslim/Persian and its relation with the third key denomination of ‘Arab’, the acculturative space of language, the meaningful role of the Ahl al-bayt and the Sayyids, and, finally, the meaningful polysemic place of waṭan, whose Western translation as ‘homeland’ notoriously posits several problems. More in general, a critical treatment of the all-seasons contrast between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ marks the whole discussion.

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Keywords: Sayyids • Diaspora • Frontier

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