Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Heidelberg, 1911. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references.

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Ce memoire tentera de decrire ce que fut l'ideologie defendue par le Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi d'Iran (1919-1980). Malgre que le Shah n'ait pas lui-meme ecrit ses positions politiques, il adherara a ce systeme de pensee qui pourrait avoir toutes les caracteristiques d'une ideologie. Ce systeme, qui a domine la vie politique iranienne pendant pres de trente ans, est fonde sur trois principes, soit la tradition monarchique iranienne, la constitution de 1906 et la revolution blanche. Ces trois fondements devaient permettre le developpement accelere de l'Iran et qui se traduit par une modernisation de la societe ainsi que par une separation stricte entre l'eglise et de l'etat. L'autorite de l'Islam et du clerge shiite sera alors progressivement evince des affaires publiques durant le regne de Mohammad Reza Shah, laissant la place a une doctrine valorisant a la fois le modernisme, l'occidentalisation et les traditions royales issues de l'Iran ancien. Toutefois ce sera ces memes fondements--constitution, monarchie, revolution blanche--pourtant incompatibles entre eux, qui feront en sorte que ce systeme n'a pu, devenir une ideologie au sens propre du terme.

The thesis is an investigation into the concept of modem political myth and its relationship to ideology. It argues that political myth can best be understood as the personalisation or familiarisation of ideology, by which ideological constructions are identified either with an individual, normally a political leader, or are expressed in mythic representations familiar within a given state and drawn from the traditional myths which permeate the political cultures of that state. The thesis argues that the personalisation and possible personification of ideology is one of the most obvious methods of political myth production and notes that the inherent contradictions and tensions resulting from an attempt to identify an individual with a principle almost always results in the construction of political myth. Political myth construction and development remains dynamic and reciprocal in relation to its ideational and material environment. Iran during the Pahlavi period (1921-79) provides the case-study for the thesis, as a society in the process of profound social and economic change led by a government both enthusiastic and economically able to impose its own particular conception of development and modernity within a nationalistic framework, upon the country. The continued importance of personalities to the political process and then attempts to identify with particular ideologies provided cogent examples of political myth construction and development. With particular emphasis on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the thesis shows the development of his ideological world-view, the initial reciprocal dynamic of these views, leading towards increasing identification, polarisation and isolation by the end of his reign. The thesis seeks to show how political myth was employed to naturalise and legitimise the Pahlavi Dynasty within the Iranian state. In charting the ideological development in the Pahlavi era, from traditional state towards a particular conception of modernity, political myth is seen to be not a uniquely modem phenomenon. However, the emergence of the modem mass media, especially in electronic form has resulted in the acceleration of political myth construction and its widespread and rapid dissemination. This technological change helps to differentiate modern political myth from its predecessors and given the continuing growth of the mass media, is likely to ensure that the concept of political myth wall be increasingly important to political discourse.

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Farah Pahlavi and Jehan Sadat have both been described as leaders' wives who were Westernized. While this premise is not untrue, to label them as only demonstrating Western actions and having Western ideas denies Iran's and Egypt's women's movements from having any influence upon their lives. The premise of this work is that Farah Pahlavi and Jehan Sadat engaged the historical legacies of the debates concerning women's role in society. Both women have been omitted from the historical narrative because of their identification as a Westernized element in society. This work explores the legacies of the construction of womanhood in Iran and Egypt (via a discussion of the women's movements) and how Farah Pahlavi and Jehan Sadat interacted with their particular countries experiences during their tenure as leader's wives.

The task which I set myself when I undertook to study the text of the Greater Bundahisn was at that time by no means clear either in its difficulty or its extent. Nor could I then know to what degree the increased knowledge of Iranian, in particular, of Middle Iranian, the period from about 300 B.C. to 900 A.D., had made understanding of this text possible. Iranian studies attained to a new birth when in 1904 the results of archaeological expeditions to central Asia were first made known. By these discoveries of MSS the difficulties of reading Pahlavi were at once lightened. It was certain that if the vocabulary of Western Persia of Sasanian times were fully known, the Zoroastrian Pahlavi texts could no longer hide their secrets under the cursive alphabet which had hindered the progress of earlier scholars. Not only the Western dialects but also the recently discovered Sogdian and Saka have naturally enriched our understanding of the Middle Iranian vocabulary. But the lack of complete indexes of the words of theses two dialects still renders their use difficult. For Saka, besides the published indexes (of which the most important has only just appeared in Sten Konow's Saka Studies) I made my own index of all the unindexed Saka so far published. For Sogdian there has been the grammar of Buddhist Sogdian by R. Gauthiot, besides which I have had some indexed material of my own. Reichelt's promised glossary of Buddhist Sogdian has not yet appeared. The few Manichean Sogdian texts so far published (by F.W.K. Miller and Waldschmidt-Lentz) have yielded interesting words. For the Christian Sogdian there is the index in F.W.K. Muller's Soghdische Texte.

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La première moitié du 19ème siècle, a constitué le point de départ de la mise en place de la modernisation d’Iran. Aucun domaine n’a pu échapper au défi lancé par la modernisation et la formation d’une nouvelle élite iranienne à travers l’envoi d’étudiants iraniens en Europe a contribué au projet de modernisation du pays. En considérant les jeunes iraniens instruits en Europe comme autant de figures emblématiques de mutation de la société iranienne dans le processus de la modernisation, ces derniers ont été considérés comme une élite moderne. Les évolutions sociopolitiques et économiques de la société iranienne, au début du 20ème siècle, mettent en lumière l’existence d’une dynamique de renouvellement et d’un changement élitaire. Les étudiants en tant qu’acteurs principaux du processus de modernisation de l’Iran constituent un nouveau courant de pensée, une nouvelle manière d’envisager la société par l’émergence de courants politiques et de nouvelles littératures. Dans ce registre la formation de la nouvelle élite en Iran à l’époque Pahlavi est passé par la formation d’enseignants instruits en Europe chargés de former la nouvelle élite nationale à l’intérieur du pays. Autrement dit ces étudiants ont été envoyés en Europe pour devenir formateurs, instituteurs et professeurs au sein des établissements d’enseignement iraniens à leur retour en Iran. En dressant le tableau de la vie quotidienne et les difficultés que ces étudiants ont rencontré, nous avons essayé de mettre en cause les idées reçues sur l’élite moderne et le rôle de l’élite et des intellectuels dans le projet de la modernisation ; sujet resté pendant longtemps entre mythe et réalité historique. / The first half of the 19th century was the starting point of the implementation of iranian modernization. No area has escaped the challenge posed by modernization and the formation of a new elite through the formation of Iranian students in Europe which has contributed to the modernization of Iran. Considering Iran's educated youth in Europe like so many emblematic figures of Iranian society’s transformation in the process of modernization, they have been regarded as a modern elite. The socio-political and economic developments of the Iranian society in the beginning of 20th century highlight the existence of a dynamic renewal and change of elite status. Students as major actors in the process of Iran’s modernization form a new school of thought, a new way of considering the society by the emergence of new political trend and literatures. In this context the formation of new elite in Iran in the Pahlavi era has gone through the training of teachers educated in Europe responsible for training the new national elite within the country. These students were sent to Europe to become at their return to Iran, trainers, teachers and professors in Iranian institutions. In drawing the picture of daily life and the difficulties that these students met, we tried to blame received ideas on the modern elite and its role in the project of modernization; a subject remained for a long time between myth and historical reality.

The aim of the thesis is to reflect on selected modernization reforms of Reza Shah in the first period of the Pahlaví dynasty (1925-1941) from the point of view of women who studied, started families and tried to work in this period. The basic source is women's memoirs published in 2018 in Iran, by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani. The thesis examines the reaction of women to the Shah's reforms, the consequences of social changes and, more generally, a role these women played in the process of modernization of Iran. The reforms that the work focuses on are related to the position of women in society and have had an immediate impact on their lives: for example, amendments to family laws, education, job opportunities, social activities and the type of clothing. The work is divided into two parts. The theoretical part examines the political and economic background of Iran in the second half of the 19th century and in the early 20th century until the 1940s. It also discusses Reza Shah's government and its plans and reforms for modernizing Iran, and finally the living conditions of Iranian women during this period. It describes the conditions in which they lived, what limitations they faced and what activities they engaged in. In the practical part, it examines in detail the reforms of Reza Shah in the field of...