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Paper I found online, "Religious Minorities in Iran ...."

Postby armchairscholar » Sat Dec 27, 2014 11:12 pm

It's called, "Religious Minorities in Iran: Baha’is, Jews, and the Islamic State."


http://lilt.ilstu.edu/critique/Fall%202011/Olai.pdf

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Re: Paper I found online, "Religious Minorities in Iran ....

Postby Jonah-admin » Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:56 pm

Thanks for sharing! I've been meaning to post that, and another dozen theses, this year....

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Re: Paper I found online, "Religious Minorities in Iran ....

Postby armchairscholar » Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:33 am

I found this book on Project Gutenberg by a Westerner. It's called Modern Persia by Mooshie G. Daniel. It contains sympathetic accounts of the Bab and Babism.


http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21512/21 ... .htm#II_IV

In stature he was tall and slender, eyes black; eyebrows, heavy and long; beard, patriarchal. His countenance was very pleasant and attractive. In conversation with high and low classes of people alike he showed himself a servant of all. He was poetical, a great orator and a deep thinker. He wrote many beautiful poems. His epistles to his disciples were philosophical. His words in sermons touched the hearts of men. When orthodox Mohammedans saw that Bobeism was spreading among the people, the priesthood and the government joined in severely persecuting the disciples of the new faith. The disciples were scattered by this persecution to different cities which resulted in a still greater spread of the new doctrine.


This is quite the fascinating book! Factually, he isn't even incorrect in many aspects though he did get the Bab's given name wrong and his transliteration is obviously very poor.

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Re: Paper I found online, "Religious Minorities in Iran ....

Postby armchairscholar » Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:20 am

Here is another account on archive.org in the book "Persia" by Percy Sykes written in 1922. It's on page 127 to 129.

https://ia802705.us.archive.org/24/item ... 537mbp.pdf

This book is called "Across Persia" by Crawshay Williams. The account of the Bab is chapter XX on page 270.

https://ia600500.us.archive.org/1/items ... ersia.djvu

And here's a lengthy account all in French in Chapter V.

https://ia601902.us.archive.org/28/item ... 54_000.pdf

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Re: Paper I found online, "Religious Minorities in Iran ....

Postby armchairscholar » Wed Dec 31, 2014 9:22 am

http://imwerden.de/pdf/grinevskaya_bab.pdf

Isabella Grinevskaya's play on the Bab.

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Re: Paper I found online, "Religious Minorities in Iran ....

Postby Jonah-admin » Wed Dec 31, 2014 2:41 pm

Excellent finds, Emma, thank you! Some of those I hadn't seen. There often seem to be new (old) gems on archive.org just waiting to be discovered. Let us know if you find more! (I'm keeping a running total of things-to-download from archive at http://bahai-library.com/archive_new_documents )


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