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Article: Religious Minorities in Iran. (Book Reviews).
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- Middle East Policy
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Religious Minorities in Iran, by Eliz Sanasarian. Cambridge University Press, 2000. xix + 228 pages, 4 tables, 9 illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $59.95, hardbound.
Dr. Sanasarian's study of the non-Muslim minorities of Iran fills an important gap in the information readily available on the complex mosaic of Middle Eastern society. A native of Iran and professor of political science at the University of Southern California, she is herself a member of the largest Christian minority in Iran, the Armenians. The vast majority of Iranians (93 percent) are Shia Muslims, though barely half (51 percent) are ethnically Persian. One quarter (24 percent) are ...