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Iranian non-Muslim communities : negotiating social space during the Constitutional Revolution, 1891-1911 / Saghar Sadeghian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sadeghian, Saghar, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious minorities--Iran--Social conditions--20th century.
- Religious minorities.
- Religious minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Iran.
- Iran--Religion.
- Iran.
- Iran--History--1905-1911.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "In the years surrounding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, major non-Muslim communities of Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews, and Baha'is negotiated identities, rights, and power structures. Using primary documents from Iranian, British, and French archives, Saghar Sadeghian examines an underexplored aspect of Iranian and Middle Eastern history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Legal status of the non-Muslims : navigating and negotiating space as Iranians
- Non-Muslims' economic activities and social classes in Iran : negotiation of the borders
- The religious "other" in the heart of Iranian society : negotiating and producing spaces
- Conversion as boundary crossing
- Creating a new social space : non-Muslims in the Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911)
- Non-Muslims in the Parliament : constitutional production of space
- The Second Parliament's demise and the withdrawal from political engagement.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-74915-3
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