Introduction; Part 1 Religion and Politics; Chapter 1 Religion and Irreligion in Early Iranian Nationalism*Most of the research for this paper was done on a Social Science Research Council Fellowship for work on a book on the Iranian Revolution 1905-1911
in Iran
England
and the Soviet Union. Thanks go also to Iranian informants
Part icularly Sayyed Hasan Taqizadeh; to Dr. Abdol Hosein Zarrinkub
who suggested a number of ideas; to the scholars in the U.S. who criticized an earlier draft of the paper; and to Professor Martin Dickson for his painstaking help. Responsibility for views expressed is
of course
the author's. (1979 addendum: much information that could not be footnoted came from the late Sayyed Hasan Taqizadeh.); Chapter 2 The Origins of the Religious-Radical Alliance in Iran*This Chapter is a revised version of a paper delivered before the Iranian Students' Association Conference on Contemporary Iran
Harvard
1965. Only a small amount of the documentation on which its conclusions are based can conveniently be mentioned in footnotes. Here there will be little mention of sources in Persian
Arabic
Russian and Turkish or of unpublished documents
which are used and cited extensively in my Religion and Rebellion in Iran: The Tobacco Prolest of 1891-92
and Sayyid Jamal ad-Din 'al-Afghani': A Political Biography.; Chapter 3 Popular Part icipation in the Persian Revolution of 1905-1911; Chapter 4 Religion and Society in Iran*Thanks are due to Mohsen Ashtiany
Mangol Bayat-Philipp
Carlo Caldarola
George Hourani
Maxime Rodinson
William Royce
and Peter von Sivers for their useful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.; Part 2 Socio-Economic Change; Chapter 5 The Economic History of Iran
1800-1914
and its Political Impact; Chapter 6 Iran
1797-1941; Chapter 7 Stratification
Social Control
and Capitalism in Iranian Villages; Chapter 8 Oil
Economic Policy
and Social Change in Iran*This is a revised version of a paper presented to the conference 'Stratégies de Développement et Changements Sociaux dans les Pays Producteurs de Pétrole d'Afrique et d'Asie
' held in October
1977
under the auspices of the Association Française de Science Politique
Centre de Hautes Etudes sur l'Afrique et l'Asie Modernes
and organized by Yves Schemeil. Thanks are due to E. Abrahamian
L. Beck
and E. Hooglund for comments on the 1977 paper. Some material from these papers was used in shorter articles in Iranian Studies
1979
'The Midas Touch' (where there are more details on Ayatollah Khomeini and the religious opposition) and in Race and Class
'Oil
Economic Policy
and Social Conflict in Iran
' where there are more statistics and more details on land reform than in this essay. Editorial help on those essays from Ali Banuazizi and Eqbal Ahmad contributed to this one. Unless otherwise specified in the essay
the policies referred to in the essay were those followed before the 1978-79 events.;
