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BL
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1090132
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bc101016
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English
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| Main Entry
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Amanat, Mehrdad
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| Title & Author
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Jewish identities in Iran : : resistance and conversion to Islam and the Baha'i faith /\ Mehrdad Amanat.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: I.B. Tauris,, 2011.
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| Series Statement
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Library of modern religion ;; 9
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1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
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| ISBN
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9780857719928
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: 0857719920
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: 9780755608614
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: 0755608615
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: 9781283293105
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: 1283293102
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: 9781845118914
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184511891X
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9781780767772
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1780767773
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- The Jewish presence in pre-Islamic and medieval Iran -- Jewish conversions in the Safavid and early Qajar periods -- Emergence of the Baha'i slternative -- New forms of conversion -- Uncertainty and conviction: early examples of conversion -- Rayhan Rayhani: a peddler living through critical times -- Aqajan Shakeri: miseries of a Jewish life -- The Hafez Al-Sehheh family: privileges and perils of conversion -- Epilogue.
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| Abstract
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"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? Mehrdad Amanat explores the conversion experiences of Jewish families during this time, and examines the fluid, multiple religious identities that many converts adopted. The religious fluidity exemplified in the widespread voluntary conversion of Iranian Jews to Baha'ism presents an alternative to the rejectionist view of religion that regards millennia of religious experience as inherently coercive, oppressive, rigidly dogmatic and a consistently divisive social force"--Publisher's description.
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Jews-- Cultural assimilation-- Iran.
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Muslim converts from Judaism-- Iran.
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Bahai converts from Judaism-- Iran.
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Jews-- Iran-- Identity.
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Baha'i.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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Bahai converts from Judaism.
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Jews-- Cultural assimilation.
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Jews-- Identity.
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Muslim converts from Judaism.
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Iran.
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| Dewey Classification
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955.004924
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| LC Classification
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DS135.I7
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