The Babi and Baha'i community of Iran: A case of “suspended genocide”?

Momen, Moojan

doi:10.1080/14623520500127431

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“…This thesis is dedicated to the young members of the Bahá'í Faith in Iran who since 1981 until the present day are systematically and formally denied access to higher education, solely for their beliefs (229,230). You are a true source of inspiration to me and so many others around the world.…”

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Pegylated interferon and ribavirin combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus infection in patients with Child-Pugh Class A liver cirrhosis

Syed

Rahbin

Weiland

et al. 2008

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

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Pegylated interferon and ribavirin combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus infection in patients with Child-Pugh Class A liver cirrhosis

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Weiland

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Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

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“…This persecution has intensified since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and now parallels closely the pathways to genocide that have been described in other situations by various scholars. 68 Momen: Millennialism and Violence…”

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Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852

Momen¹

2008

Nova Religio

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The association of millennialist movements with violence has been a subject of much study following recent high-profile events. This article examines a case of millennialism and violence that occurred just over 150 years ago. It tracks the events leading to the attempted assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran in 1852 by a small group of followers of the religion of the Bab, a religious leader who claimed to fulfill the prophecies of Shi'i Islam about the coming of the Imam Mahdi. The factors leading to the violence are analyzed and compared with other cases of millennialism and violence. The main factors that stand out in this case include: a pre-existing religious milieu that expected a violent, millennial event and engendered a radically dualist worldview, with the shah's government as the embodiment of an evil destined to be defeated and removed; a severe persecution of the group resulting in some followers' desire for revenge and a dramatic violent act that would bring divine intervention and ultimate victory; government removal of moderate leadership, leaving only radical extremist leaders; and the presence among the Tehran group of Babis, which carried out the attempted assassination, of a charismatic leader whom these Babis believed had access to a source of divine power that could make the plan achievable, when a more rational analysis would have demonstrated the opposite.

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“…1939) and President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017). At the bottom of the document was the signature of Hujjatu’i Islam Seyyed Mohammad Golpaygani, Secretary of the Council, along with the approval and signature of Khamenei himself (Momen, 2005, p. 227). The memorandum proposes reasonable ways to deal with the treatment toward the Baha’i community “in such a way that everyone will understand what should or should not be done” (Kazemzadeh, 2000, p. 553) and that “their progress and development are blocked” (BIC, 2008, p. 21).…”

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Baha’is in Post-revolution Iran: Perspectives of the Ulema

Sanyal

2019

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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Since the inception of the Baha’ism as an independent faith in Persia, its adherents came under attack from the religious clergy which perceived the growing popularity of this new faith as a threat to their monopolistic position in the society. Education and economy were the two dominant fields where the Baha’is prospered in pre-revolution Iran, thereby contributing to the modernization of Persia. However, being a post-Abrahamic faith in its origin, the Islamic clergy viewed the Baha’is as apostates and an enemy of Islam, which led to the persistent targeting and attacks on the Baha’is over the faith’s origin and as an essentially incompatible and contradictory disposition in the Baha’i– ulema relations. While the pre-revolution Iran show an ulema–monarchy convergence in their attack on the Baha’is, the post-revolution Iran witnessed the same through consolidation of state– ulema powers in the form of the new Islamic Republic. The discrimination and persecutions of the Baha’is in the post-1979 Iran increased considerably, and one can witness a deviation of the homogenous perception on the Baha’is by the religious clergy class. The conservative reformist faction of the ulema has given rise to newer and opposing perspectives on the Baha’is, the largest non-recognized religious minority in Iran.

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The Babi and Baha'i community of Iran: A case of “suspended genocide”?

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Pegylated interferon and ribavirin combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus infection in patients with Child-Pugh Class A liver cirrhosis

Pegylated interferon and ribavirin combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus infection in patients with Child-Pugh Class A liver cirrhosis

Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852

Baha’is in Post-revolution Iran: Perspectives of the Ulema

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