Title Resistance to the Shah : landowners and the ulama in Iran / Mohammad Gholi Majd

Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 415 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-395) and index Notes Print version record Subject Majd, Mohammad Ali, 1891-1978. SUBJECT Majd, Mohammad Ali, 1891-1978 fast Subject 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 Agriculture and state Land tenure -- Political aspects Landowners -- Political activity Ulama -- Political activity Landgebruik. Landhervormingen. Oelema's. SUBJECT Iran -- History -- Pahlavi dynasty, 1925-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067905 Subject Iran Iran. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0813022975 9780813022970

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