The Baha'is of Iran
Subtitle: socio-historical studies
By: edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel.
Contributors: Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz.; Fazel, Seena.
Series: Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780415356732; 9780203002803
Subjects: Bahais -- Persecutions -- Iran.; Bahais -- Iran.; Bahai Faith -- Relations.; Iran -- Religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel; title: Messianic expectation and evolving identities : the conversion of Iranian Jews to the Baha'i Faith / Mehrdad Amanat; title: The conversion of Zoroastrians to the Baha'i faith / Fereydun Vahman; title: Instructive encouragement : the tablets of Baha'ullah and 'Abdu'l-Baha to Baha'i women in Iran and India / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw; title: Baha'i schools in Iran / Moojan Momen; title: Baha'i health initiatives in Iran : a preliminary survey / Seena B. Fazel and Minou Foadi; title: Baha'i discourses on the Constitutional Revolution / Kavian S. Milani; title: The comparative dimension of the Baha'i case and prospects for change in the future / Eliz Sanasarian; title: The historical roots of the persecution of Babis and Baha'is in Iran / Abbas Amanat; title: Anatomy of prejudice : reflections on secular anti-Baha'ism in Iran / H. E. Chehabi; title: Anti-Baha'ism and Islamism in Iran / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; title: The discourse and practice of human rights violations of Iranian Baha'is in The Islamic Republic of Iran / Reza Afshari.