Mysticism and Dissent

Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran

• Author(s): Mangol Bayat,
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 0815628536
  ISBN_13: 9780815628538
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Middle East / Iran , Religion / Islam / Shi'a , Religion / Mysticism ,

Description:... This history examines the complex origins of religious dissent in 19th-century Qajar Iran (known to Westerners as Persia), and how it provided a mood and attitude which led to far-reaching political dissent, culminating in the establishment of a new government in 1906.