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TAGS: – Persecution, Iran; Human rights; Iran; Minorities; Qá'im; Religious intolerance; Sharia; Shia Islam (Shiism); Ulama
Abstract:
On the human rights implications of applying Islamic law in Iran to its Bahá'í minority; alternative readings of the sharí‘a that could reconcile discrepancies between the treatment of Bahá'ís with Iran's obligations under international law.
Notes:
Abstract taken from Religious Contentions in Modern Iran, 1881-1941.

Implications of Twelver Shí'ih Mihdísm on Religious Tolerance:

The Case of the Bahá'í Minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Payam Akhavan

published in Islamic Law Reform and Human Rights

Chapter 11, ed. Tore Lindholm and Kari Vogt, pp. 197-218

Copenhagen: Nordic Human Rights Publications, 1993

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