Iran: Nonviolent Revolts, 1890-1906 (Chapter 8 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)
Nonviolent resistance has played an influential role in Iranian history since the late nineteenth century, in particular, by challenging unjust rulers and their subservience to foreign interests. Critically this has involved a recurring strategic alliance between sections of the clergy; the bazaar merchants; and the secular, generally modernizing and nationalist intellectual elite […]
From the book ‘Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles‘, 2013
