Bibliography: DXEGVI7T

key	DXEGVI7T
title	[Review]
author	Vahabzadeh, Peyman
item type	Journal article
publication year	1998
date	1998
publication title	Iranian Studies
abstract note	The reviewer writes: "The two attempts at Nasser al-Din Shah's life -- the first made in 1852 by the Babi converts and the second in 1896 by Mirza Reza Kermani which cost the Shah his life -- provide the author with instances to illustrate how in a fifty-year period Iranian society had undergone major socio-structural changes: whereas the Babis were subjected to a painful and prolonged execution, Mirza Reza's life was ended by a quick death on the gallows. Rejali, then. argues that methods of punishment in Iran were qualitatively transformed during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, by which time punishment had become disciplinary punishment, marking a shift towards a disciplinary society. Here, Rejali seems to overlook the fact that the Babis were declared by Shi'i ulama as a dangerous threat to Islam, and thus, the reason behind the long and sanguinary death of the Babi assassins was their very belonging to this subversive heretic religion.. Mirza Reza's act, on the contrary, was sanctioned by a prominent dissident religious leader of the times, Sayyid Jamal al-Din Afghani."
pages	132-136
issue	1
volume	31
language	English
manual tags	IRAN; BOOK REVIEW; BABI FAITH; MODERNITY; TORTURE