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Key	BIB36902
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	Baha’is in Post-revolution Iran : Perspectives of the Ulema
Journal	Contemporary Review of the Middle East (New Delhi)
Author	Sanyal, Ankita
Year	2019
Date	March 2019
Issue	1
Volume	6
Abstract	Since the inception of the Baha'i Faith as an independent religion in Persia, its adherents have come under attack from the religious clergy which perceived the growing popularity of this new faith as a threat to their monopolistic position in society. Education and economy were the two dominant fields where the Baha’is prospered in pre-revolution Iran, thereby contributing to the modernization of Persia. However, being a post-Islamic Abrahamic faith, the Islamic clergy viewed the Baha’is as apostates and an enemy of Islam, which led to the persistent targeting and attacks on the Baha’is over the faith’s origin and as an essentially incompatible and contradictory disposition in Baha’i–ulema relations. While pre-revolutionary Iran showed an ulema–monarchy convergence in their attack on the Baha’is, post-revolutionary Iran witnessed the same through consolidation of state–ulema powers in the form of the new Islamic Republic. The discrimination against and persecutions of the Baha’is in the post-1979 Iran increased considerably, and one can witness a deviation of the homogeneous perception of the Baha’is by the religious clergy class. The conservative reformist faction of the ulema has given rise to newer and opposing perspectives on the Baha’is, the largest non-recognized religious minority in Iran. [Revised to correct grammatical errors and errors of expression]
Language	English
Keywords	IRAN; PERSECUTION; ULAMA; ISLAM; CLERGY; DHIMMI (PEOPLE OF THE BOOK); CITIZENSHIP; HUMAN RIGHTS; PURITY
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/2347798918812286
Pages	58–74
Legal note	11.
File attachments	internal-pdf://2958404450/Sankyal - Bahais_in_Post-revolution_Iran.pdf

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