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Author : Boris Handal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853986065
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Mírzá Mihdí written by Boris Handal and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hamid Algar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520327659
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Religion and State in Iran 1785-1906 written by Hamid Algar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Author : Shireen Mahdavi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980035
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book For God, Mammon, And Country written by Shireen Mahdavi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major account of the life and times of a merchant in nineteenth-century Iran or in the Middle East. Haj Muhammad Amin al-Zarb (1834?1898) rose from humble beginnings to become one of Iran's wealthiest and most prominent merchants. He built up his wealth as a money changer, a trader in textiles, precious stones, opium, carpets, agricultural products, and staple foodstuffs amongst other goods, and judicious transactions in land. Adept at cultivating powerful connections, he became the principal supplier of luxury goods to the Shah, his court, and members of the ruling elite; served as private banker to the Shah, his prime minister, and influential bureaucrats; and became Master of the Mint. He had agents in all the main towns of Persia and Europe with correspondents in Asia and America.Amin al-Zarb was also an entrepreneur, industrialist, and innovator. Determined to bring to Iran the advances he had witnessed in Europe, he invested in mining, established factories with imported machinery (such as glass, china, and silk reeling), built a railway line, and urged the Shah to establish a national bank. He also became an advocate of reform and curbs on arbitrary rule. He befriended the famous Islamic reformer, Jamal al-Din Afghani. An innovator in business, Amin al-Zarb led a very traditional life at home. Gifted at making money, he was nevertheless a pious man who contributed generously to religious and charitable causes. Shireen Mahdavi draws on hitherto unpublished family archives to write not only a biography of a fascinating nineteenth-century merchant but also a social history of the period. Her portrait of Amin al-Zarb also provides important insights into the economic, social, and political role played by merchants in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East in the nineteenth century.
Author : James M Gustafson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317427904
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Kirman and the Qajar Empire written by James M Gustafson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its apparently peripheral location in the Qajar Empire, Kirman was frequently found at the centre of developments reshaping Iran in the 19th century. Over the Qajar period the region saw significant changes, as competition between Kirmani families rapidly developed commercial cotton and opium production and a world renowned carpet weaving industry, as well as giving strength to radical modernist and nationalist agitation in the years leading up to the 1906 Constitutional Revolution. Kirman and the Qajar Empire explores how these Kirmani local elites mediated political, economic, and social change in their community during the significant transitional period in Iran’s history, from the rise of the Qajar Empire through to World War I. It departs from the prevailing centre-periphery models of economic integration and Qajar provincial history, engaging with key questions over how Iranians participated in reshaping their communities in the context of imperialism and growing transnational connections. With rarely utilized local historical and geographical writings, as well as a range of narrative and archival sources, this book provides new insight into the impact of household factionalism and estate building over four generations in the Kirman region. As well as offering the first academic monograph on modern Kirman, it is also an important case study in local dimensions of modernity. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Iranian studies and Iranian History, as well as general Middle Eastern studies.
Author : Peter Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521862515
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Baha'i Faith written by Peter Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Smith explores the history, beliefs and practices of the Baha'i faith.
Author : Arash Khazeni
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800755
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran written by Arash Khazeni and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of their territory to the outside world. As the Qajar dynasty sought to integrate the peoples on its margins into the state, the British Empire made commercial inroads into the once inaccessible mountains on the frontier between Iran and Iraq. The distance between the state and the tribes was narrowed through imperial projects that included the building of a road through the mountains, the gathering of geographical and ethnographic information, and the exploration for oil, which culminated during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. These modern projects assimilated autonomous pastoral nomadic tribes on the peripheries of Qajar Iran into a wider imperial territory and the world economy. Tribal subjects did not remain passive amidst these changes in environment and society, however, and projects of empire in the hinterlands of Iran were always mediated through encounters, accommodation, and engagement with the tribes. In contrast to the range of literature on the urban classes and political center in Qajar Iran, Arash Khazeni adopts a view from the Bakhtiyari tents on the periphery. Drawing upon Persian chronicles, tribal histories, and archival sources from London, Tehran, and Isfahan, this book opens new ground by approaching nineteenth-century Iran from its edge and placing the tribal periphery at the heart of a tale about empire and assimilation in the modern Middle East.
Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004114821
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Muqarnas, Volume 16: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Soli Shahvar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857712713
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Schools written by Soli Shahvar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the nineteenth century it became evident to Iran's ruling Qajar elite that the state's contribution to the promotion of modern education in the country was unable to meet the growing expectations set by Iranian society. Muzaffar al-Din Shah sought to remedy this situation by permitting the entry of the private sector into the field of modern education and in 1899 the first Baha'i school was established in Tehran. By the 1930s there were dozens of Baha'i schools. Their high standards of education drew many non-Baha'i students, from all sections of society.Here Soli Shahvar assesses these 'forgotten schools' and investigates why they proved so popular not only with Baha'is, but Zoroastrians, Jews and especially Muslims. Shahvar explains why they were closed by the reformist Reza Shah in the late 1930s and the subsequent fragility of the Baha'is position in Iran.
Author : Stephen Beebe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493121200
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Logic of the Apocalypse written by Stephen Beebe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there logic in the Book of the Apocalypse? The Apocalypse is perhaps the most controversial book of the entire Bible, and its meaning is debated by clerics and academics. As conflicts and crises deepen around the world, Christians ponder its relevance for the twenty-first century. Is there any way to understand it rationally? The Logic of the Apocalypse presents a novel approach that will satisfy your curiosity and will lead you to new conclusions about its message.
Author : Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004170545
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Genesis of the Bâabâi-Bahâaâi Faiths in Shâirâaz and Fâars written by Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating history a " the first of its kind on the development of a local BahAE3/4A- community in Iran a " is lucidly translated for the first time into English by Dr. Ahang Rabbani, is carefully annotated and supplemented with many details and scholarly notes about key personalities and places of interest to students of Iranian history.
Author : Afsaneh Najmabadi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520931386
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-04-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life.
Author : J.P. Vaswani
Publisher : Gita Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9386004275
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book 100 Love Stories written by J.P. Vaswani and published by Gita Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one who has mastered the mantra "Be Love, Live Love", A treasury of Love stories... of a different sort, Harvested from a hundred years of practicing love, One hundred tales that showcase what love really means. Open any page of this book— and feel love drenching you like the first showers of the monsoon.
Author : Steven Breneman
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504351851
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Noble Rider written by Steven Breneman and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic poem in alliterative verse reminiscent of Old English poetic form, Noble Rider concerns the nineteenth-century luminary named Bahaullah, the prophet founder of the Bahai faith. It is the first volume in a projected trilogy and addresses the life from birth in Tehran in 1817 to the public announcement of his mission in Baghdad in 1863. The son of a minister ascendant in the Qajar monarchy, Bahaullah was renowned from an early age for his brilliance, compassion, and breath-taking courage and integrity in speaking truth to power in the Shiah church-state system. Even while still in his twenties, he became known as the Father of the Poor. When a young merchant in Shiraz known as the Bab (the Gate) began to proclaim the advent of a great one who would usher in the coming of age of the human race, Bahaullah forfeited name and wealth in enthusiastically championing the promising cause. Iran was electrified and divided by the challenging call to renewal and modernization. Many were magnetized by its themes of human unfoldment, others fiercely resistant. Holocaust ensued. The Bab and twenty thousand of his followers were slaughtered. Alone among the leading figures to survive, Bahaullah was imprisoned and tortured and then exiled to Iraqbut not before receiving through mystic means, and from the Bab himself, clear indications of his station as the promised one.
Author : Assef Ashraf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009361554
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran written by Assef Ashraf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses political practices and a socially-oriented approach to explain imperial formation under the Qajars in early nineteenth-century Iran.
Author : Malcolm Yapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556557651
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (576 download)
Download or read book British Documents on Foreign Affairs written by Malcolm Yapp and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Noelle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136603174
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan written by Christine Noelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of two short periods of direct British intervention during the Anglo-Afghan Wars of 1839-42 and 1878-80, the history of nineteenth-century Afghanistan has received little attention from western scholars. This study seeks to shift the focus of debate from the geostrategic concern with Afghanistan as the bone of contention between imperial Russian and British interests to a thorough investigation of the sociopolitical circumstances prevailing within the country. On the basis of unpublished British documents and works by Afghan historians, it lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the political mechanisms at work during the early Muhammadzai era by analysing them both from the viewpoint of the center and the pierphery.
Author : Rudi Matthee
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805260693
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door written by Rudi Matthee and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess—whether sultans and shahs in their palaces, or commoners in taverns run by Jews or Christians. This evocative study delves into drinking’s many historic, literary and social manifestations in Islam, going beyond references to ‘hypocrisy’ or the temptations of ‘forbidden fruit’. Rudi Matthee argues that alcohol, through its ‘absence’ as much as its presence, takes us to the heart of Islam. Exploring the long history of this faith—from the eight-century Umayyad dynasty to Erdogan’s Turkey, and from Islamic Spain to modern Pakistan—he unearths a tradition of diversity and multiplicity in which Muslims drank, and found myriad excuses to do so. They celebrated wine and used it as a poetic metaphor, even viewing alcohol as a gift from God—the key to unlocking eternal truth. Drawing on a plethora of sources in multiple languages, Matthee presents Islam not as an austere and uncompromising faith, but as a set of beliefs and practices that embrace ambivalence, allowing for ambiguity and even contradiction.
