List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Preface: 1919 Ali Ansari Introduction: Writing Iran into Debates on Sovereignty Shabnam J. Holliday I. Sovereignties and Ancient Iran 1. Of Mountain and Plain: Sovereignty, Resilience, and Diversity in Elam Brieg Powel 2. 'Created', 'Seized', and 'Held': Concepts of Sovereignty in the Old Persian Inscriptions of Darius I Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones 3. From Earth and Water to Spandarmaz and Anahita: Women as Archetypal Agents of Emancipation and Sovereignty in Iranian Myths and Folktales Saeed Talajooy 4. Sovereignty and the Parthian and Sasanian Kings Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis II. Navigating Territorial Sovereignties 5.

The Safavids: An Argument for the Retention of Sovereignty on the Domestic and International Scenes Andrew Newman 6. A Subjugated State or Member of the United Nations: How Sovereignty was Envisioned during the Occupation Years, 1941 - 1946 Rowena Abdul Razak 7. Sovereignty and the Pahlavi 'Empire State' Robert Steele 8. Seeking Spiritual Security: The Religion and Sovereignty Nexus in Iranian Foreign Policy during the Islamic Republic Era Edward Wastnidge III. Competing Sovereignties 9. Banning and Belonging: Sovereignty and Ethnicity in Bahrain and the Persian Gulf Coast, 1900-1941 Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet 10. The Clash of Sovereignties in Iran: Kurdistan and (Semi)sovereignty, Marouf Cabi 11. Multiplicities of Sovereignty: Gender, State, and Intersectionality in Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising Asma Abdi and Shabnam J.

Holliday Conclusion: Towards a Non-Eurocentric Approach to Sovereignty through Iran: Appreciating Complexity, Contingency and Agency Shabnam J. Holliday Index.