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key	RPWF37YF
title	Blackballed Ideology : Understanding how Baha’i doctrine was rejected from mainstream thought in Iran
author	Sarvestany, Raha Sabet
item type	Thesis
publication year	2017
date	2017
abstract note	My attempt in this paper is to illustrate the historical, sociopolitical and religious causes that have boycotted Baha’i doctrine in Iran, moreover poisoned academia mainly with the toxicant of ignorance and prejudice. This paper tries to show that modernization of Iran brought radical changes in the economical, political, traditional culture and intellectual discourse when Pahlavi dynasty got power after Qajar dynasty. This along the enormous global changes that happened in the beginning of the 19th century, and particularly with the declaration of Bab in 1844 as the promised one of all the religions of the world, it seems these changes were a huge shock for the religious and patriarchal society of Iran. Also imbalance between the speed of modernity that naturally demands for social and political reforms and slow changes in Iranian culture which is religiously based could be factors which are considerable with special regard to new religious ideological framework which questioned foundation of Islam. The aim of this engagement is not to prove an ideology or accuse anybody but to show how intellectual discourses could divest, deny and disregard a new ideology which could bring a different color and taste to existing discourses, without any accurate reasons. This paper tries to argue how power structures could shape academia and people to get disconnected from reality and nature of an ideology.
number pages	13
publisher	University of Pune
place	Pune
language	English
manual tags	IRAN; PERSECUTION; ISLAM; CULTURE

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