Religion and Society in Qajar Iran

by Gleave; Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415338141
• ISBN10: 041533814X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-02
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This book brings together studies by experts in the study of religion in nineteenth century Iran. Broad areas covered include the relationship between religion and the state, the importance of archival materials for the study of religion, the developments in Qajar religious thought, the position of religious minorities in Qajar Iran and the relationship between religion and Qajar culture. The centrality of Shi'ite Islam to any understanding of Qajar religion is emphasised, though non-Muslim religious communities, and their relationship with the Shi'ite hierarchy and the state are also studied. For the first time, a collection of studies by the leading researchers in the field are collected in one place. The collection represents the proceedings of a conference in September 2000 at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
List of contributors	x
Preface	xii
Note on transliteration, dates, names and abbreviations	xiv
Religion and society in Qajar Iran: an introduction	1	(18)
Robert Gleave
PART I Religion and the state in the Qajar period	19	(92)
Political ethic and public law in the early Qajar period	21	(20)
Said Amir Arjomand
Jihad and the religious legitimacy of the early Qajar state	41	(30)
Robert Gleave
From Dar al-Saltana-yi Isfahan to Dar al-khilafa-yi Tihran: continuity and change in the Safavid model of state-religious administration during the Qajars (1795--1895/1209--1313)	71	(13)
Mansur Sefatgol
Religious and state jurisdiction during Nasir al-Din Shah's reign	84	(27)
Irene Schneider
PART II Religious thought in the Qajar period	111	(82)
Being (wujud) and sanctity (wilaya): two poles of intellectual and mystical enquiry in Qajar Iran	113	(14)
Sajjad Rizvi
Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Twelver Shi'ism: Ahmad al-Ahsa'i on Fayd Kashani (the Risalat al-Ilmiyya)	127	(28)
Todd Lawson
Anti-Akhbari sentiments among the Qajar `Ulama': the case of Muhammad Baqir al-Khwansari (d.1313/1895)	155	(19)
Andrew J. Newman
Heterodox intellectuals of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution	174	(19)
Sohrab Yazdani
PART III Sources for the study of popular religion in Qajar Iran	193	(52)
Religion in public and private life: the case of Yaghma-yi Jandaqi (1781--1859)	195	(16)
Roxane Haag-Higuchi
Pious merchants: religious sentiments in wills and testaments	211	(16)
Christoph Werner
The Vaqf and the religious patronage of Manuchihr Khan Mu'tamad al-Dawlah	227	(18)
Nobuaki Kondo
PART IV Religious minorities and Western missionaries in Qajar Iran	245	(126)
Mujtahids and missionaries: Shi'i responses to Christian polemics in the early Qajar period	247	(23)
Abbas Amanat
The Western missionaries in Azerbaijani society (1835--1914)	270	(23)
Florence Hellot
Jews of Iran in the Qajar period: persecution and Perseverance	293	(18)
Haideh Sahim
The evolution of charismatic authority in the Baha'i faith (1863--1921)	311	(35)
Juan R. I. Cole
The role of women in the Iranian Baha'i community during the Qajar period	346	(25)
Moojan Momen
PART V Religion and culture in Qajar Iran	371	(78)
Religious rituals, social identities and political relationships in Tehran under Qajar rule, 1850s--1920s	373	(20)
Kamran Aghaie
The Exile Persian Press and the pro-constitutionalist `Ulama' of the `Atabat	393	(8)
Pardis Minuchehr
Religion and medicine in Qajar Iran	401	(28)
Hormoz Ebr Ahimnejad
Some interpretations of religious and popular culture in Qajar tilework	429	(20)
Jennifer Scarce
Bibliography	449	(25)
Index	474