Mehrdad Amanat

Racial Ambiguity and Religious Vulnerability in Late Nineteenth- to Mid-Twentieth-century Iran: The Life of Ghulam-‘Ali Siyah Khurasani of Yazd, an Afro-Iranian Baha’i

Scholars of Iranian history have begun turning their attention to the presence of enslaved Africans in Iran. The history of Africans and racial categories and identities has emerged in academic literature as a topic worthy of study. 1 While there is much yet to be learned, we can...