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Show 71 lack of communication due to sions of Arabs, Turks and division among the and feared that an the internecine Turkish) would lead The successive inva had introduced additional Mongols people. particularly, threatened barriers. geographical separation The Turkish and Persian divisions, country; 'by the mid-nineteenth century struggle it was between the two factions (Persian and to the 'dismemberment of the empire'" (Ramazani, 1966:35). Religious The Persians their time in or, religious people and superstitious as lived in Persia The spent about one-fourth of were subject religious history These people were regarded reltgions other than Islam, even, sects of Islam other than Shiah. death. and religious affairs (Kasravi, 1961:131). prejudiced very were a The religious minorities that to many varieties of discrimination of Iran is a bloody one and or even a source of embarrassment. The worst situation Christians, and ceeded the to be] a than Z orastrians to the [could] be Bahls and Baha'is. forgiven As a heresay and as such [could] were was not be tolerated" result of this attitude towards the Babis twenty thousand of their number "The Jews, because, their faith pre coming of Muhammad, but the Baha'is religion Moslem 1964:88). belonged and [considered (Cottam, Baha'is, more killed and several thousands tortured and exiled from their communities or' from Iran. |
