The Baha'is of Iran (eBook, ePUB)

Socio-Historical Studies
Redaktion: Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz; Fazel, Seena B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first multi-author volume that comprehensively surveys the emergence and development of the Baha'i community of Iran, the country's largest non-Muslim religious minority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134250004
• Artikelnr.: 38262942

Autorenporträt

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Lecturer in Persian Studies and Iranian Literature at the University of Manchester. Dr Seena B Fazel is Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and an honorary Consultant Psychiatrist.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreword Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel 2. Messianic
Expectation and Evolving Identities: The Conversion of Iranian Jews to the
Baha'i Faith Mehrdad Amanat 3. The Conversion of Zoroastrians to the Baha'i
Faith Fereydun Vahman 4. Instructive Encouragement: The Tablets of
Baha'ullah and 'Abdu'l-Baha to Baha'i Women in Iran and India Dominic
Parviz Brookshaw 5. Baha'i Schools in Iran Moojan Momen 6. Baha'i Health
Initiatives in Iran: A Preliminary Survey Seena B. Fazel and Minou Foadi
7. Baha'i Discourses on the Constitutional Revolution Kavian Milani 8. The
Comparative Dimension of the Baha'i Case and Prospects for Change in the
Future Eliz Sanasarian 9. The Historical Roots of the Persecution of Babis
and Baha'is in Iran Abbas Amanat 10. Anti-Baha'ism and Islamism in Iran
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 11. Anatomy of Prejudice: Reflections on Secular
Anti-Baha'ism in Iran H.E. Chehabi 12. The Discourse and Practice of Human
Rights Violations of Iranian Baha'is in the Islamic Republic of Iran Reza
Afshari