Jewish identities in iran: resistance and conversion to islam and the baha'i faith
Auteur :
Amanat, Mehrdad
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN :
9781780767772
Date de publication :
12 août 2013
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
415 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
For minority faith groups living in nineteenth-century Iran, religious conversion to Islam - both voluntary and forced - was the primary means of social integration and assimilation. However, why was it that some Persian Jews instead embraced the emergent Baha'i Faith, which was subject to harsher persecution that Judaism?