Bibliography: BIB28793

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB28793
reference type	Book
title	175 Years of Persecution : A History of the Babis & Baha'is of Iran
author	Vahman, Fereydun
authority control	Fereydun Vahman
year	2019
date	2019
publisher	Oneworld
place published	London
issue	7.
ISBN	9781786075864 1786075865
abstract	For almost two centuries, followers of the Baha'i faith, Iran's largest religious minority, have been persecuted by the state. They have been made scapegoats for the nation's ills, branded enemies of Islam and denounced as foreign agents. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Baha'is have been barred from entering the nation's universities, more than two hundred have been executed, and hundreds more imprisoned and tortured. Now, however, Iran is at a turning point. A new generation has begun to question how the Baha'is have been portrayed by the government and the clergy, and called for them to be given equal rights as fellow citizens. In documenting, for the first time, the plight of this religious community in Iran since its inception, Fereydun Vahman also reveals the greater plight of a nation aspiring to develop a modern identity built on respect for diversity rather than hatred and self-deception.
language	English
keywords	PERSECUTION; IRAN
number of pages	xvi, 333
call number	305.697930955
accession number	ocn1079332047