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Resistance to the Shah : landowners and the ulama in Iran
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- Creator
- Mohammad Gholi Majd
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 415 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813017310, 0813017319
- OCLC
- ocm42921327
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-395) and index.
- Brief historical survey and introduction -- Political career of Mohammad Ali Majd, Fatn ol Saltaneh: from supporter to opponent of the Pahlavis -- Acquisition of land and wealth by Reza Shah -- Background to land distribution: sale and distribution of Pahlavi estates, 1951-1962 -- Founding the agricultural union of Iran, 1959, Land Reform Law of May 1960, and cabinet decrees of 9 January 1962 and 17 January 1963 -- The vagary and perfidy of American policy -- Selected publications and bulletins of the agricultural union of Iran and organizations of small landowners -- Landowners' appeal to the Ulama and the response -- America's role as seen by the opposition: conspiracy and betrayal -- Suppressing the opposition and silencing the agricultural union of Iran -- Theory and practice of land reform: case studies in landownership, taxation, and land distribution -- The structure of landownership on the eve of land distribution: expropriation and plight of the small landowners -- Toward a theory of landownership in Islamic Iran and some consequences of land distribution
Subjects
- Majd, Mohammad Ali, 1891-1978.
- Land tenure -- Political aspects -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
- Landowners -- Political activity -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
- Agriculture and state -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
- Ulama -- Political activity -- Iran.
- Land reform -- Iran -- History -- 20th centyry.
- Iran -- History -- Pahlavi dynasty, 1925-1979.