Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, 1903 (Photo of the Day)

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http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/chief-rabbi-photo.html

Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, 1903 (Photo of the Day)
By Juan Cole | Dec. 24, 2013



The Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, in the center

Iran’s population in 1900 was around 10 million. There were roughly 100,000 Jews in Iran at that time.

Lord Curzon wrote in the late nineteenth century of different treatment of Jews in different parts of the country:

“In Isfahan, where they are said to be 3,700 and where they occupy a relatively better status than elsewhere in Persia, they are not permitted to wear kolah or Persian headdress, to have shops in the bazaar, to build the walls of their houses as high as a Moslem neighbour’s, or to ride in the street. In Teheran and Kashan they are also to be found in large numbers and enjoying a fair position. In Shiraz they are very badly off. In Bushire they are prosperous and free from persecution.”

From M. E. Hume-Griffith and A. Hume, Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman’s Eight Years’ Residence Amongst the Women of the East (1909).

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1. I am reading Aslan's "no God But God" and read that Muhammad

Considered Christians and Jews as protected people. He also called them "people of the book." He believed they all read from the same heavenly book. He only had issues with one Jewish tribe of Medina because they sided with Mecca and against Medina. Even then he didn't act until he had to.