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By (author): Farsheed FerdowsiProduct Code: USMJISBN: 979-8985669718Publisher: Jazab PressPages: 462Availability: In stock
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Review This Product Under the Staircase is a biography of Fatollah Ferdowsi, a remarkable man who was executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran on the morning of January 4, 1982. His only crime was his belief. He was a member of the Baha'i Faith, a persecuted minority in Iran. The regime gave him a choice: "Recant your faith and go free, or you will die." Fatollah remained steadfast. He chose faith over life—the eternal over the ephemeral. Fatollah Ferdowsi's journey to martyrdom is meticulously researched and narrated by his youngest son, Farsheed. Under the Staircase is, in a larger sense, the story of the entire community of Iran's Baha'is, who have endured more than a century and a half of severe persecution and who have responded to their predicament with determination
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By (author): Audrey MellardProduct Code: WRSISBN: 978-0-85398-641-6Publisher: George RonaldPages: 156Availability: In stock
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Review This Product The compelling narrative of Manuchihr Farzaneh-Moayyad, a Baha'i who was arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned and executed in Iran, and of his wife Mehri, who was herself imprisoned before her dramatic escape across the Iranian desert on camelback with her young daughter to refuge in Pakistan and, at last, to her new home in Scotland.
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By (author): Anisa Abdul-Razzaq Abbas Translated by: Alhan IrwinProduct Code: WHTISBN: 978-1-61851-190-4Publisher: One Voice PressPages: 331Availability: In stock
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On a December day in 1973, Anisa Abdul-Razzaq Abbas heard a knock at the door of the Baghdad home she was visiting. She opened the door to greet two men from the Iraqi Al-Amn security force, who immediately placed her under arrest. Her crime: being a member of the Bahá’í Faith, a religious minority in her native Iraq.
Over the next six years, Anisa—along with other members of the Bahá’í community who were arrested at that time—would spend three years in Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison and a further three years in Al-Rashaad prison before her release in 1979. During her years of incarceration, Anisa would rely on her faith to meet the myriad challenges of prison life. Day after day, she and her fellow-prisoners experienced levels of cruelty and injustice that most would find unthinkable. Separated from her husband, who was being held in the men’s prison, and from her children who were without both parents, Anisa was sustained through her darkest days by the steadfast devotion and sacrificial love of her family, and by the strength and solidarity offered by her fellow Bahá’í prisoners.
Anisa’s story is one of patience, courage, and steadfastness in the face of religious prejudice and state-sponsored oppression, and it is a reminder to us all of the resilient strength of the human spirit.
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Author: Fereydun VahmanProduct Code: 175YPISBN: 978-1-78607-586-4Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsAvailability: In stock
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For almost two centuries, followers of the Bahá’í Faith, Iran’s largest religious minority, have been persecuted by the state. They have been made scapegoats for the nation's ills, branded enemies of Islam and denounced as foreign agents. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Bahá’ís have been barred from entering the nation's universities, more than two hundred have been executed, and hundreds more imprisoned and tortured.
Now, however, Iran is at a turning point. A new generation has begun to question how the Bahá’ís have been portrayed by the government and the clergy, and called for them to be given equal rights as fellow citizens. In documenting, for the first time, the plight of this religious community in Iran since its inception, Fereydun Vahman also reveals the greater plight of a nation aspiring to develop a modern identity built on respect for diversity rather than hatred and self-deception.
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Author: Roya Akhavan, PH.D.Product Code: PFOPISBN: 9781939548641Publisher: Wisdom EditionsAvailability: In stock
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Peace For Our Planet
A New Approach
Amidst the blinding haze generated by the accelerating collapse of outworn mindsets and institutions, this book brings into focus the forward march of the constructive process towards peace, and the powerful role each of us can play in its realization.
(Minor Bahá’i content)
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Author: Aaron EmmelProduct Code: HRACISBN: 978-0-85398-564-8Publisher: George RonaldPages: 386Availability: In stock
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Review This Product What do human rights mean today? How have we arrived here? And where are human rights going?
Author Aaron Emmel tackles these questions and more in Human Rights in an Advancing Civilization and explores the advancement of human rights in a world community that is continuing to evolve and in a world where our sense of community continues to expand.
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Review This Product The Bahá'í community of Iran is the country's largest non-Muslim religious minority. This collection of essays presents a comprehensive study of the social and historical development of the Bahá'í community, and its role in shaping modern Iran.
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