Iran: 1906-1941 w/ Eskandar Sadeghi & Golnar Nikpour
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The Challenges to Authority in Iran in the Late 19th Century
Baha'i has become incredibly demonized through out Iranian history through the present day exactly, so it's taken some historical excavation to kind of think through the profound challenge that bbism poses. There are also reformists at this moment in the late 19th century whose specific investment becomes law in the rule of law as opposed to process based law and regionalist laws. This is part of the colonial critique of Khajar absolutism which was internalized by Khajar-era reform intellectuals like Malcolm Khan.
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