Decades before it began its political struggle against European domination, modern nationalism in Iran had created its own `domain of sovereignty'. In its first stage of confrontation with Europe, Persian nationalism divided the world of ideas and institutions into two domains, `the material and the spiritual'.(1) The domain of the material was the domain of the `outside', of modern sciences, technology, and political institutions. In this area, Europe had demonstrated its superiority over Iran and the rest of the Islamic world. Thus, in this domain, European superiority had to ...

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