The Baha'i Studies Listserv > I think in the period you were talking about Iraq wasn't even a > country yet and the region was dominated by the Safavids.
It was always a country. What it wasn't was a nation-state. Iraq was only under the control of the Safavids for short periods. For the most part it was controlled by the Ottomans. If you know anything about Iranian history you will know how little control the Safavids were able to exercise over the clerics who were imported from Iraq. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-510901-274...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
