A History of Iran’s Baha’i Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah

This incisive study traces the shifting fortunes of Iran’s Baha’is under the last Pahlavi monarch, revealing phases of persecution, uneasy respite, and renewed violence. Highlighting the Shah’s conflicting impulses -appeasing clerics while courting a human-rights image - the book shows how Baha’is were alternately scapegoated, ignored, or tolerated. Clear and meticulously researched, it offers a vital overview of a community navigating danger and denial.