Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i Faith by Mehrdad Amanat

Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i Faith

Mehrdad Amanat

256 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective medium-paced
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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 th...

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