The Myth of the White Revolution: Mohammad Reza Shah, 'Modernization' and the Consolidation of Power

Ansari, Ali M.

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“…What makes the program remarkable is its use of both 'hardware' (technology) and 'software' (modernist ideas, particularly in the educational field)-to reinvigorate core beliefs. The Muslim world has seen instances of reformers using Western practices to downgrade the position of Islam in society-for example, in Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's Turkey (Okyar 1984;Rahman 1984), or Mohammad Shah Reza Pahlavi's Iran (Yalman 1991;Ansari 2001). The use of modern pedagogy and a Western intellectual framework paired with a re-institutionalisation of Islamic orthopraxy, however, is far less common.…”

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Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Upal¹,

Cusack²

2021

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with a Master of Arts degree, he taught at various schools shaping students to be better versions of themselves. Away from the pressures of the Ministry, he devotes long hours and devours countless cups of teh halia (a local brew of ginger tea) researching on the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam which has been published in several academic journals as well as featured on the websites of these religious movements. He lives in Punggol, an isolated nook in the northeast of Singapore, with his wife and three kids and lives for Islam, historical research, and football.

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Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Upal¹,

Cusack²

2021

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“…This was a status quo concentrated upon the institute of the monarchy as the lynchpin of Iranian state and people. The central inspiring thought was that of 'modernism' (Ansari, 2010).…”

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Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Reign: An Analysis of White Revolution

Muzaffar¹

2018

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“…The Shah's idea of the 'Great Civilisation' was also an attempt to legitimise Iranian tradition, and therefore his monarchy, though a particular conception of modernity [7]. This can particularly be seen from the way that he contextualised the need for development within the narrative of Iranian history.…”

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“…The programme was known as the 'Enghelab-e Sefid-e Shah va Melat' ('White Revolution of the Shah and the People'), and aimed to abolish the quasi-feudal landlord class in rural Iran [6]. At the same time, it promoted Department of Architecture, TU Delft, NL, s.m.a.sedighi@tudelft.nl privatisation and the inculcation of a Capitalist economy with a clear bias toward rapid industrialisation [7]. Supported by the exponential growth of oil revenues, this modernisation policy made high-speed urbanisation possible from the mid-1960s and throughout the 1970s, leading to a massive rural-urban migration to Tehran, with corresponding urban sprawl.…”

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Megastructure Reloaded: A New Technocratic Approach to Housing Development in Ekbatan, Tehran

Sedighi

2018

ARENA Journal of Architectural Research

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Under the USA's free-market foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s, the Tehran Redevelopment Company (TRC) in collaboration with a New York firm, Starrett Housing Corporation, undertook one of the most extensive and innovative Middle Eastern public housing projects. * As part of Tehran's masterplan designed by the Austrian-American urban planner Victor Gruen -aided by Iranian architect Abdolaziz Farmanfarmaian -the scheme accommodated 15,500 low-and middle-income families, especially those of civil servants, in an area that became known as Shahrak-e Ekbatan (Ekbatan). On one hand, the development aimed to change the everyday life of middle-class people; on the other, it sought to institute a capitalist economy with a bias towards rapid industrialisation. To achieve these objectives, the TRC asked Gruzen and Partners (USA) and Space Group (South Korea) to create a prototypical model: they selected the strongly collective urban form of a Brutalist concrete megastructure. Noting the influence of US President Jack Kennedy's doctrine for developing countries during the Cold War, this article reveals how the Ektaban scheme addressed local culture and society, while also accommodating change over time. As a Middle Eastern Modernist megastructure, it was erected after Reyner Banham in 1973 had declared that typology 'dead' in the Western world.

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The Myth of the White Revolution: Mohammad Reza Shah, 'Modernization' and the Consolidation of Power

Cited by 68 publications

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Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Reign: An Analysis of White Revolution

Megastructure Reloaded: A New Technocratic Approach to Housing Development in Ekbatan, Tehran

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