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The Development of the Babi/Baha'i Communities: Exploring Baron Rosen's Archives (Iranian Studies) - Hardcover

Book 14 of 42: Iranian Studies

Ioannesyan, Youli

 
9780415661362: The Development of the Babi/Baha'i Communities: Exploring Baron Rosen's Archives (Iranian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415661366 ISBN 13: 9780415661362
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Baron Rosen’s Babi/Baha’i archives presents private letters and diplomatic correspondence from the nineteenth century, preserved among the prominent Russian scholar Baron Victor Rosen’s materials in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch.

The materials cast light on the first studies of the Babi and Baha’i Faiths, new religious phenomena which, in Baron Rosen’s time, were emerging in Persia. Iran has always been a strategic concern of Russia’s geopolitical interests and the traditional importance which has been given to Persia has manifested itself in hundreds of documents and writings collected by the pre-revolutionary Russian diplomats and scholars. These documents, large parts of which have never been published before, reveal new information on the attitude of the Russian government towards religious and ethnic minorities as well as towards related issues within the Russian Empire and abroad.

Bringing together materials in Russian, English, Persian, Arabic and French related to the Babi and Baha’i Faiths from Rosen’s archive in the original languages with an English translation, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of Iranian Studies, Religion and Middle East Studies amongst others.

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About the Author

Youli A. Ioannesyan is Senior Researcher, Institute of the Oriental manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Science. His interests include comparative religious studies and Iranian linguistics. Previous publications include Essays on the Babi and Baha’i Faiths (St.Petersburg, 2003) and Afghan Folktales from Heart (New York, 2009).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415661366
ISBN 13 
9780415661362
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232