{"id":46291,"date":"2020-12-07T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=46291"},"modified":"2021-02-03T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:07:36","slug":"chehabi-published-new-book-onomastic-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2020\/12\/07\/chehabi-published-new-book-onomastic-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Chehabi Publishes New Book: Onomastic Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On December 7, 2020, Houchang Chehabi<\/a>, Professor of International Relations and History at the\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<\/span>\u00a0at Boston University, published\u00a0 a new book – Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State-Building in Iran<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In the book, published by the Ilex Foundation, Chehabi explains the traditional naming practices of Iranians before the reform, describes the public debates surrounding their obsolescence, traces the legislative measures and decrees that constituted the reform, and explores the ways Iranians chose or invented surnames for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book can be purchased online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Houchang Chehabi<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>has taught at Harvard and has been a visiting professor at the University of St. Andrews, UCLA, and the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. He has published two books, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006). Chehabi has written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations. You can read more about him\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Chehabi’s book describes the public debates surrounding their obsolescence & explores the ways Iranians chose or invented surnames for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":46292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8432],"tags":[11480,8589,8838,1819,9357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47164,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46291\/revisions\/47164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}