A Reformist, a Diplomat, and a Benevolent Merchant: Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad-Taqi Shirazi (Afnan), the Shirazi Trading House and the Propagation of the Babi-Bahai Faith

Soli Shahvar

doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341508

A Reformist, a Diplomat, and a Benevolent Merchant: Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad-Taqi Shirazi (Afnan), the Shirazi Trading House and the Propagation of the Babi-Bahai Faith

Soli Shahvar

Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

University of Haifa

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to offer a glimpse into the Bahai mercantile community in Iran during the second half of the nineteenth century and its reformist and modernist attitudes through the accounts of one of its leading merchants, Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad-Taqi Shirazi (Afnan).

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	195-234
Number of pages	40
Journal	Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Volume	63
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341508
State	Published - 2020

Keywords

Amin al-Zarb
Ashkhabad
Babi-Bahai faith
Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Shirazi
Qajar Iran
Transcaspia
Tsarist Russia
Yazd
merchants

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History
Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics

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A Reformist, a Diplomat, and a Benevolent Merchant: Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad-Taqi Shirazi (Afnan), the Shirazi Trading House and the Propagation of the Babi-Bahai Faith

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