In the mid-to-late nineteenth-century, the Ottoman Empire, and specifically its capital Istanbul, became the home and socio-intellectual base of some of the most renowned Iranian intellectuals and dissidents of Qajar Iran (1785-1925). These emigres and scholars, from sites across the Ottoman Empire, produced much of the literature of reform and dissent that decades later would be regarded as some o f the most important texts circulated in Iran prior...
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