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Islam and the Religions of Iran in the Encyclopedia of Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Julian Baldick
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In the Encyclopedia of Religion the articles on Islam and the religions of Iran prompt very different reactions. On the Islamic side a third are good, a third bad, and the rest either of indifferent quality or merely straightforward, as is natural in a work of reference. But not only are the bad articles extremely misleading: they are cast in a framework which cannot fail to produce a seriously distorted overall perspective. For the religions of Iran, however, we are given an admirable series of contributions by Gherardo Gnoli, and it is a great pleasure for a British reader to find, in English, a balanced summary of the results of recent Continental scholarship in this field.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 47 - 56
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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