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Show 39 primitive and they did way of life" The (Pahlavi, 1967:13). of the Safavid kings prejudices, made women and religious and did not rights play any legal spheres with their dynasty, the situation for dynasty the position fore, not consider women of any consequences in their of women no better. not women were significant of Persian religious During even role in the attitude and the Qajar There considered. political, SOCial, society. Religious The people of Iran during the period of the Revolution lived climate like that of the Middle Ages of Europe. are subject to several kinds of dynasty,religion Although clergy the power and the Qajar dynasty, was a and the the clergy religious found a pressure. a situation people During the Safavid unique and powerful position. presttge of the clergy declined during the still belonged to the dominant power and interest in Iran Religious In such in a social ruling class and religion (Shoghi Effendi, 1961). Movement In traditional religious socieites society, law and education ''tend change in to have ultimate politics, economics, religious implications. Small changes will involve supernatural sanctions (Bellah, 1958:1). As Turberville summarized it, "the distinction which we world, the Renaissance and Reformation have made it, or as of the modern . want to make between |
