Bibliography: PLAKS5BC

key	PLAKS5BC
title	Three Iranian Intellectual Icons of the 1960s and Their Attitudes Toward the Bahá’ís
author	Yazdani, Mina
authority control	Mina Yazdani
item type	Journal article
publication year	2026
date	2026
publication title	Religions
ISSN	2077-1444
abstract note	This article examines the works of three iconic Iranian intellectuals of the 1960s—the Muslim thinker Jalál Ál‑i‑Aḥmad, the Islamist ideologue ‘Alí Sharí‘atí, and the Marxist theorist Iḥsán Ṭabarí—and argues that their shared underlying assumption is the claim that the Bahá’í religion has foreign roots and that its leaders maintain clandestine ties with foreign powers. By uncritically accepting the master narrative of Bahá’í espionage—shaped in large part by The Confessions of Dalgurúkí in the 1940s—these intellectuals, contrary to their role as agents of change and critics of authority, helped further consolidate and perpetuate this narrative. In doing so, and given their significant influence, they contributed to the distancing of their readers from their Bahá’í compatriots.
pages	259
issue	2
volume	17
language	English
link attachments	https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17/2/259
manual tags	IRAN; PERSECUTION; AL-I-AHMAD, JALAL; INTELLECTUAL LIFE; SHARI'AT'I, 'ALI; TABARI, IHSAN