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... Revolution: Industrialization, Evangelicalism, and the Birth of Printing in Early Qajar Iran Nile Green Industrialization and the Globalization of Printing n recent years, both European and Iranian scholars have made great advances in our understanding of the birth...

... and the Middle East in the nineteenth century. He contends that the causes of the 1860–61 famine were a series of interlocking issues that had affected the political economy of the Qajar state. The longer-term economic and political developments in the run-up to the crisis had an important role in setting up...

... fIainWmnsActivism Women’s Iranian of Roots the of Reading Historiographical and Historical Alternative An Sphere: Public the in Women Qajar Nineteenth-Century .jhu.edu/journals/journal Booth, History,” Marilyn Gender and see Women’s East East, Middle both in Middle Directions in “New the conducted...

...Talinn Grigor This essay traces the Persian artistic revival of two separate but interdependent communities: the Parsis of the British Raj and the reformist Muslims and Zoroastrians of Qajar Iran. The two communities, with their own distinct, though at times overlapping, art historical developments...

.... Nader Sohrabi 78 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. XXI Nos. 1&2 (2001) MONICA M. RINGER, Education, Religion, and the Discourse of abroad to be trained in various subjects. The opposition not Cultural Reform in Qajar Iran (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda...

...Juan R. I. Cole Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 The Provincial Politics of Heresy and Reform in Qajar Iran: Shaykh al-Rais in Shiraz, 1895-1902 Juan R. I. Cole Abu al-Hasan Mirza, known as Shaykh al-Rais (1848- see the Bahai leader Abdul-Baha...

... a char- town to be attended Lack of hygiene in major nel house - a city of the dead Churchill’s account, cities - a source of concern for Qajar statesmen - though predisposed to sensationalism, dramatized the facilitated the spread of epidemics in Iran6 As one indignities wreaked upon innocent...

... decades of anarchy the first central state in Iran was formed by the founder of the Qajar dynasty, Agha Mohammad Khan, is the starting point of this inquiry. In complete contrast to the Safavids (1501 – 1722), the Qajars did not have religious claims of their own, and by the time of the formation...

... The Qajar state was a patrimonial one where the glory and possessor of royal charisma (farr-i hah hi state was conceived as the property of the ruler, Sov- Yet, in spite of the supernatural aura that permeated ereignty was to a large extent rooted in the authority his person and his office, he...

... on the eve of reunification If the sole legitimate successor of the Prophet, if the of Iran under the Qajars. During the Qajar period sole legitimate authority after him is no longer present (1 795- 1925) ulama-state relations took more definitive on the earthly plane, that means...

..., it seems, always develops in some mainly or entirely the result of European imperialism such dialectical form. The absence of this dialectic in and view Iranian modernity as a defensive catch-up Qajar Iran is puzzling and might be considered a la- reaction to European science, technology...

... the absolutism of the shahs (Qajars and Pahlavis) and Western imperialism. The historiography of the Iranian constitutional revolution is rich and varied; the recent publication in Iran of primary...

... Thought in Qajar Iran . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 1982 . Beauvoir Simone de . The Second Sex . Translated by Borde Constance Malovany-Chevallier Sheila . New York : Vintage , 2011 . Beverley Eric Lewis . Hyderabad, British India, and the World: Muslim...

...- globalization and an increased political participation eral decades have spawned a number of works exam- on the international stage by the Qajar leadership be- ining the milestones and the emerging institutions comes as much a manifestation of modernity as the that have ultimately shaped the socio...

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... during the 19th century. Similar to its prede- rowly monopolized political and ideological control cessors, the Qajar dynasty (1796-1925) began as a over the state, the Pahlavi monarchy thus faced a ‘‘patrimonial’’ monarchy (Kingship legitimized by structural crisis that began in the mid...

... Qajars: “The attempt to construct a state- European historiography from the late lSthcentury to wide bureaucracy failed The Qajars were equally the pre~entthe accounts of modem Iran, like that of unsuccessful.. .in building a viable standing other non-Western societies, are unanimously...

... border crossing constituted a major point of contention between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid and Qajar Iran. One of the most persistent religio-economic activities of Middle Eastern history, corpse traffic continued almost unabated until the emergence of cholera as a global health threat. The emergence...

... advanced for Iranian politics and, although still a public figure until the early 1980s, keeps to the margins of political life. He then confides to Iraj Afshar his deep regret that he had vehemently opposed any compromise with Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar when the latter had willy-nilly tried to reach...

... mainly the Caucasus was in charge of producing revolutionary literature or dispatching revolutionary agents to the south in order to save the constitution from being slaughtered by Qajar despotism. In a corresponding fashion, in Soviet historiography the study of the reformist movement of the early...