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Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran

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Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran - Bayat, Mangol
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This updated history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in nineteenth-century Qajar Iran (then known to Westerners as Persia), and how it provided a mood and attitude that led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a new government in 1906. Bayat extracts social and political thought from theological treatises to show how a centuries-long tradition of reform in Shia thought helped pave the way for modern secular change. She also concludes that as a result of the failed attempt ...

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Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran 2000, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse

ISBN-13: 9780815628538

Trade paperback

Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran 1982, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse

ISBN-13: 9780815622604

Hardcover