HIST131 Lecture 10: Hist131 3.4.16
31 Aug 2016
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Three groups that felt threatened by new world: High clergy: khums shii" tax that gives 20% of income to church, bypasses state and goes directly to clergy which is one of reasons why clergy is so powerful, redistributed by clergy to poor, orphans, etc. Have power of purse: zakat one of five pillars of islam, 2. 5% of income must go back to society, administered by state. Reformers, intellectuals that went to paris to study and came back with all these new ideas. State could not reach people who entered mosque. Camp out at british legation demanding house of justice: to clergy, the fulfillment of mandate of shah to protect iran as shii county against infidel power. Shah signs off constitution and parliament before he dies in 1906. 1907 british and russian have a deal to carve out spheres of influence. Russians got north and british get south which is close to india. Right before they struck oil in neutral zone.
