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The Baha'is of Iran : socio-historical studies / edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel.

Contributor(s): Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz | Fazel, Seena
Series: Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 12Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.Description: xv, 283 s. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415583220 (pbk.); 0415356733 (hbk.); 0415583225 (pbk.); 0203002806 (ebk.); 9780415356732 (hbk.); 9780203002803 (ebk.)Subject(s): Bahais -- Iran | Bahais -- Persecutions -- Iran | Bahai Faith -- Relations | Iran -- ReligionLOC classification: BP330 | .B337 2008
Contents:
Introduction / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel -- Messianic expectation and evolving identities : the conversion of Iranian Jews to the Baha'i Faith / Mehrdad Amanat -- The conversion of Zoroastrians to the Baha'i faith / Fereydun Vahman -- Instructive encouragement : the tablets of Baha'ullah and 'Abdu'l-Baha to Baha'i women in Iran and India / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw -- Baha'i schools in Iran / Moojan Momen -- Baha'i health initiatives in Iran : a preliminary survey / Seena B. Fazel and Minou Foadi -- Baha'i discourses on the Constitutional Revolution / Kavian S. Milani -- The comparative dimension of the Baha'i case and prospects for change in the future / Eliz Sanasarian -- The historical roots of the persecution of Babis and Baha'is in Iran / Abbas Amanat -- Anatomy of prejudice : reflections on secular anti-Baha'ism in Iran / H. E. Chehabi -- Anti-Baha'ism and Islamism in Iran / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- The discourse and practice of human rights violations of Iranian Baha'is in The Islamic Republic of Iran / Reza Afshari.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel -- Messianic expectation and evolving identities : the conversion of Iranian Jews to the Baha'i Faith / Mehrdad Amanat -- The conversion of Zoroastrians to the Baha'i faith / Fereydun Vahman -- Instructive encouragement : the tablets of Baha'ullah and 'Abdu'l-Baha to Baha'i women in Iran and India / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw -- Baha'i schools in Iran / Moojan Momen -- Baha'i health initiatives in Iran : a preliminary survey / Seena B. Fazel and Minou Foadi -- Baha'i discourses on the Constitutional Revolution / Kavian S. Milani -- The comparative dimension of the Baha'i case and prospects for change in the future / Eliz Sanasarian -- The historical roots of the persecution of Babis and Baha'is in Iran / Abbas Amanat -- Anatomy of prejudice : reflections on secular anti-Baha'ism in Iran / H. E. Chehabi -- Anti-Baha'ism and Islamism in Iran / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- The discourse and practice of human rights violations of Iranian Baha'is in The Islamic Republic of Iran / Reza Afshari.

First published 2008.

Transferred to digital printing 2010.