Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran
| Author | Alam Saleh |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Iranian politics |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publication date | July 2013 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 233 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-1-349-45676-5 |
Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran is a 2013 book by Alam Saleh in which the author examines inter-ethnic tension and the politicization of ethnic identity in Iran. He suggests that problems with ethnicity and nationality in Iran, as in other countries of the Middle East, has not been so much the result of ethnic identity formation, but the product of the securitization of ethnic issues. The book has received positive reviews in the Middle East Journal, Review of Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and Nations and Nationalism.