The Baha'is of Iran
Subtitle: socio-historical studies
By: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel.
Contributors: Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz.; Fazel, Seena.
Series: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415356732
Subjects: Bahais -- Iran; Bahais -- Persecutions -- Iran; Bahai Faith -- Relations; Iran -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Foreword / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena Fazel; title: 2. Messianic expectation and evolving identities: the conversion of Iranian Jews to the Baha'i Faith / Mehrdad Amanat; title: 3. The conversion of Zoroastrians to the Baha'i faith / Fereydun Vahman; title: 4. Instructive encouragement: the tablets of Baha'ullah and 'Abdu'l-Baha to Baha'i women in Iran and India / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw; title: 5. Baha'i schools in Iran / Moojan Momen; title: 6. Baha'i health initiatives in Iran: a preliminary survey / Seena Fazel and Minou Foadi; title: 7. Baha'i discourses on the Constitutional Revolution / Kavian Milani; title: 8. The comparative dimension of the Baha'i case and prospects for change in the future / Eliz Sanasarian; title: 9. The historical roots of the persecution of Babis and Baha'is in Iran / Abbas Amanat; title: 10. Anti-baha'ism and islamism in Iran / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; title: 11. Anatomy of prejudice: reflections on secular anti-Baha'ism in Iran / Houchang E. Chehabi; title: The discourse and practice of human rights violations of Iranian Baha'is in The Islamic Republic of iran / Reza Afshari.