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The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran Free FREE THE MANTLE OF THE PROPHET: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN IRAN PDF Roy Mottahedeh | 416 pages | 01 Dec 2008 | Oneworld Publications | 9781851686162 | English | London, United Kingdom The mantle of the Prophet : religion and politics in Iran / | University of Toronto Libraries The Cinema Rexlocated in AbadanIranwas set ablaze on 19 Augustkilling The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran least people. It was the largest terrorist attack in history until the massacre of Sri Lankan Police officerswhich itself was later surpassed by the September 11 attacks. The ruling Pahlavi dynasty initially blamed "Islamic Marxists" for the fire [3] and later reported that Islamic militants started the fire, [4] [5] [6] [7] while anti-Pahlavi protesters blamed SAVAKthe Iranian secret police, for setting the fire. On 19 The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran at the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, hundreds of people were watching The Deer [10] when, atfour men barred the doors of the cinema and doused it with petrol from a can. The fire started outside three entrance doors to the main hall after the attackers allegedly dropped a match into the petrol. The attackers then fled and blocked the doors from the outside. Some people attempted to escape by the roof. There is speculation over the actual number of casualties incurred during the fire. Some of the numbers cited by sources include[12] [13][14][15] and There have been numerous allegations regarding the identity of the perpetrators of the Cinema Rex fire, but it is certain that the event was a key trigger for the Iranian revolution in Initially, the revolutionaries alleged that SAVAK intelligence agents were in pursuit of individuals who ran into the theatre and used it as an opportunity to hide in a large crowd there. Unable to escape from the building, everyone inside the cinema died in the conflagration. Sobhe Emruz wrote "Don't make us disclose who were really behind the Cinema Rex fire. This caused the newspaper to be shut down shortly after. The new Iranian government arrested Captain Monir Taheri, who was accused by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Rudsar of having received guerrilla training in the The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran States. Taheri's defense maintained that he had never visited Abadan and that he was in Ahvaz at the time of the blaze. The tribunal found Taheri guilty and executed him shortly thereafter on 23 February Dillip Hiroauthor of Iran Under the Ayatollahssaid that anti- shah groups were not likely to have caused the fire, since the Cinema Rex was located in a working-class neighbourhood and was showing the film Gavaznhastarring well-known actor Behrouz Vossoughiwhich Hiro claimed had "passed the censors with considerable difficulty. According to Roy Mottahedehauthor of The Mantle of the Prophet"thousands of Iranians who had felt neutral and had until now thought that the struggle was only between the shah and supporters of religiously conservative mullahs felt that the government might put their own lives on the block to save itself. Suddenly, for hundreds of thousands, the movement was their own business. According to Middle East expert Daniel L. Byman"The movies were an affront to God, encouraging vice and Western-style decadence. So in Augustfour Shiite revolutionaries locked the doors of the Cinema Rex in the Iranian city of Abadan and set the theater on fire…" [20]. As the event took place during the revolutionary period, it was quite difficult to identify the perpetrators, making ill-conceived accusations The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran prevalent. Although sufficient evidence was never brought forth to facilitate such claims, the labeling would have far-reaching implications on the subsequent direction of the revolutionary movement. The circumstances The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran which the fire was set did not aid the Shah's pleas of innocence. The location of the incident, an impoverished district of Abadan, and its timing did not coincide with preceding patterns of protest, which raised the level of suspicion. It was also believed that the Shah specifically targeted Cinema Rex for the sole purpose of killing political dissidents who had gathered to watch the anti-government film playing there. Lasting from 25 August to 4 Septemberthe Revolutionary Tribunal oversaw 17 court sessions that involved the trial of 26 individuals, including the only survivor of the four-man arson team, Hossein Takbalizadeh, who stated in his defense that he was an unemployed drug addict. After much deliberation, Takbalizadeh and five others were put to death in public. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Economist. Retrieved 2 March SUNY Press. Retrieved 18 August Retrieved 1 January Kayhan Life. Archived from the original on 29 July Retrieved 22 January Blanchard Neocolonialism American Style, Greenwood Publishing Group. Arno Press. MacroHistory: The Prehistory to the 21st Century. Retrieved 21 August The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films. Nine Months in Iran. Byman, Daniel. Retrieved 6 May Behrouz Vossoughi. Archived from the original on 23 October Jamaran News. Iran portal History portal. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. AbadanIran. Arsonmass murderterrorism. The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran by Roy Mottahedeh In he graduated magna cum laude in history from Harvard College and was awarded a Shaw Traveling Fellowship which he used to explore Europe, the Middle East and Afghanistan. He then undertook a second B. Browne Prize. In he returned to Harvard for doctoral studies in history, where he studied with Sir Hamilton Gibb and Richard Frye. He was elected a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and received his PhD in for a dissertation on Buyid administration which he still hopes to publish. Professor Mottahedeh began his teaching career at Princeton University in A Guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to write his first book, Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Societythe manuscript of which gained him tenure. As one of the first group of MacArthur fellows inProfessor Mottahedeh was initially doubtful that such an award existed and called back for The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran. The MacArthur award allowed him to write his second book, The Mantle of the Prophetwhich was a study of contemporary Iran as understood through two millennia of history. This book has been widely translated and remains in print. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations and has served as a series editor for several academic publishers. In he was appointed Gurney Professor The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran History. Professor Mottahedeh received an honorary degree from the University of Lund, Sweden, in Roy Mottahedeh is the author of numerous articles that demonstrate his wide range of interests from the Abbasid period in the eighth century to Islamic revival movements of the present day. One of his most widely distributed articles, which has been translated into many languages, was his critique of Huntington's theory of the clash of civilizations. Professor Mottahedeh's other publications consider such diverse topics as the transmission of learning in the Muslim world, the social bonds that connected people in the early Islamic Middle East, the theme of "wonders" in The Thousand and One Nightsthe concept of jihad in the early Islamic period, and perceptions of Persepolis among later Muslims. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. Learn how and when to remove these template messages. This biography of a living person includes a list of general referencesbut it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. 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Mantle of the Prophet, The: Religion and Politics in Iran, by Roy Mottahedeh JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. A professor at Harvard, Mottahedeh has written an intellectual history as stirring and graceful as any novel. He sets the intimate biography of a young cleric against the vast epic of Iranian thought from Zoroaster The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran Avicenna, Kasravi to Khomeini. Oneworld Publications. Search: Search. A new edition of Mottahedeh's gripping account of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran. Buy from Amazon UK. Buy from Waterstones. Buy from Amazon US. The Book Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's absorbing tale of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran turbulent time ever written. This revised edition includes a new chronology detailing events in Iran from the revolution right up to the present day and Ahmadinejad's controversial regime.
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