Religion and society in Qajar Iran / edited by Robert Gleave.
"In recent years there has been increasing interest in the study of Qajar Iran, particularly with respect to religion during this period. With contributions from leading researchers in the field of religion in nineteenth-century Iran, this book presents new insights into Qajar religious, politi...
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Religion and society in Qajar Iran : an introduction / Robert Gleave
- Pt. I. Religion and the state in the Qajar period
- 2. Political ethic and public law in the early Qajar period / Said Amir Arjomand
- 3. Jihad and the religious legitimacy of the early Qajar state / Robert Gleave
- 4. From Dar al-Saltana-yi Isfahan to Dar al-khilafa-yi Tihran : continuity and change in the Safavid model of state-religious administration during the Qajars (1795-1895/1209-1313) / Mansur Sefatgol
- 5. Religious and state jurisdiction during Nasir al-Din Shah's reign / Irene Schneider
- Pt. II. Religious thought in the Qajar period
- 6. Being (wujud) and sanctity (wilaya) : two poles of intellectual and mystical enquiry in Qajar Iran / Sajjad Rizvi
- 7. Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Twelver Shi'ism : Ahmad al-Ahsa'i on Fayd Kashani (the Risalat al-'Ilmiyya) / Todd Lawson
- 8. Anti-Akhbari sentiments among the Qajar 'Ulama' : the case of Muhammad Baqir al-Khwansari (d.1313/1895) / Andrew J. Newman
- 9. Heterodox intellectuals of the Iranian constitutional revolution / Sohrab Yazdani
- Pt. III. Sources for the study of popular religion in Qajar Iran
- 10. Religion in public and private life : the case of Yaghma-yi Jandaqi (1781-1859) / Roxane Haag-Higuchi
- 11. Pious merchants : religious sentiments in wills and testaments / Christoph Werner
- 12. The Vaqf and the religious patronage of Manuchihr Khan Mu'tamad al-Dawlah / Nobuaki Kondo
- Pt. IV. Religious minorities and western missionaries in Qajar Iran
- 13. Mujtahids and missionaries : Shi'i responses to Christian polemics in the early Qajar period / Abbas Amanat
- 14. The Western missionaries in Azerbaiijani society (1835-1914) / Florence Hellot
- 15. Jews of Iran in the Qajar period : persecution and perseverance / Haideh Sahim
- 16. The evolution of charismatic authority in the Baha'i faith (1863-1921) / Juan R. I. Cole
- 17. The role of women in the Iranian Baha'i community during the Qajar period / Moojan Momen
- Pt. V. Religion and culture in Qajar Iran
- 18. Religious rituals, social identities and political relationships in Tehran under Qajar rule, 1850s-1920s / Kamran Aghaie
- 19. The exile Persian press and the pro-constitutionalist 'Ulama' of the 'Atabat' / Pardis Minuchehr
- 20. Religion and medicine in Qajar Iran / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad
- 21. Some interpretations of religious and popular culture in Qajar tilework / Jennifer Scarce.