Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious Thought in Qajar Iran - Paperback

by Mangol Bayat (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Mangol Bayat is an independent scholar. She has taught at the University of Bonn (Germany), Harvard University, The University of Iowa, MIT, and the University of Shiraz (Iran). She is author of Iran's First Revolution, 1905-1909.