Jewish Identities in Iran by Mehrdad Amanat

Jewish Identities in Iran by Mehrdad Amanat

For minority faith groups living in nineteenth-century Iran, religious conversion to Islam - both voluntary and forced - was the primary means of social integration and assimilation. However, why was it that some Persian Jews instead embraced the emergent Baha'i Faith, which was subject to harsher persecution that Judaism?

Mehrdad Amanat's highly original and deeply researched book provides the first convincing and well-documented history of the interactions of the Jewish, Baha'i and Shi'i communities in modern IranIt demonstrates the changing nature throughout history of all Iran's major religions, and should be read by all interested in modern Iranian history, and also those concerned with the histories of Judaism, Baha'ism and Islam.' Nikki Keddie, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA 'A fascinating story of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Iran and how some Jews traded one minority status for another by converting to Bahai'ism.' Janet Afary, Professor of Religious Studies and Feminist Studies and the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity, University of California Santa Barbara 'Mehrdad Amanat's sleuthing in rare manuscript sources has shed illumination on the otherwise obscure history of Iranian Jews and Baha'is, and has thereby added rich texture to the social and cultural history of modern Iran.' Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Mehrdad Amanat is an independent scholar with a PhD in History from UCLA. He is a regular contributor to the Encyclopaedia Iranica.

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ISBN 13	9781780767772
ISBN 10	1780767773
Title	Jewish Identities in Iran
Author	Mehrdad Amanat
Series	Library Of Modern Religion Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2013-08-12
Number of pages	296
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