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Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia - Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World Nash, Geoffrey (Formerly Associate Professor, Formerly the University of Qatar)
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia - Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Nash, Geoffrey (Formerly Associate Professor, Formerly the University of Qatar)
Geoffrey Nash explores the emergence of the revolutionary Babis and reformist Baha’is and their conflict with mainstream Shi’a Muslims in Iran, and of the parallel Ahmadi movement in North India. Comparing these movements shows that, together, they define important aspects of Islamic modernity.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 27, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781474451680 |
| Publishers | Edinburgh University Press |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 245 × 162 × 26 mm · 672 g |