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Pahlavi Era

The period of rapid, state-driven modernization and secularization in Iran under the Pahlavi dynasty.

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Jan 27, 2026
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What independent academic research exists on religious dreams and conversions in Iran since 2010?

Independent academic research since 2010 on religious dreams and is fragmentary but substantive: peer-reviewed and university-press work has examined mediated Christian conversion narratives and Irani...

Jan 13, 2026
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Was iran modernizing in late 19's because of lack of muslim pressence

Iran did enter processes of modernization beginning in the late 19th century, but this trajectory was driven by a complex mix of state reform efforts, intellectual exchange, economic pressures and for...