Jangalis (Men of the Forests) 59
see also Kuchek Khan
Jews 17, 19, 40 , 166 , 176,189
judicial system
under Qajars 12 –13
under Reza Shah 87–88
under the Islamic Republic 176 –77
Ka’ab
see Sheikh Khaz’al
kadkhuda (headman) 22, 23, 27, 28, 92, 107
kalantar (bailiff) 27
Karbala 15, 64
see also Muharram
Kashani, Ayatollah xx, 115–16, 171
Kasravi, Ahmad xx, 30, 95–96, 116
Kaver Desert 26
Khalatbari, Rahman 104
Khalel Maleki 115
Khamenei, Ayatollah xxi, 179, 181 , 182 , 187
Khamseh 32–33
Khatemi, Muhammad xxi, 185
–91, 192
Khiabani, Sheikh 59, 61
Khomeini, Ayatollah xxi
death of, 182
ideas of, 146 –49, 179–80
return of, 161
titles of, 4 , 164
Komiteh (Committee) 162
Kuchek Khan 59, 61, 170, 177
Kurdish autonomy (1945) 111
Kurds 21, 22
labor laws 110, 180, 185
labor unions 108–10
Lahuti, Major 68
land reform 131–32, 156, 180
landowners
and land reform, 132–33, 139, 156
in parliament, 57, 73, 100, 104–05
under Qajars, 15, 23–26
Liakhoff, Colonel 51, 53
literacy 39, 134, 142,
180
Literacy Corps 134
lutis (toughs) 28
mahalleh (wards) 28, 29 , 31
majles (parliament) 41–46, 57, 72–74, 104–05,
166–67
Mansur, Ali 101–02
Mansur, Hassan 129, 130
Mardom Party 130, 149
Mashed 15, 42, 59, 93–94, 151
Mas’oud, Akbar 105–06
Mazanderan, 63, 72
MI6 118–22
Millspaugh, Arthur 67, 91
minority languages 39–40
minority religions 68–69
Mission for My Country 130–31, 150
missionaries 40
Modarres, Ayatollah xxii, 74, 170
Mojahedin-e Khalq 148, 162
, 166, 168, 181
Moqadam family 25, 74, 133
Mossadeq, Muhammad xxii, 102–03, 113–14,
122, 172
oil nationalization 116–17, 118–20
opposes Shah’s powers 114, 117–18
mostazafen (dispossessed) 145, 148, 167, 183,
186, 193
Mostazafen Foundation 164, 178
Mostowfi, Abdallah 12, 15, 25
Mostowfi al-Mamalek 10, 49, 53, 58
mostowfis (accountants) 9–11, 20, 41, 48, 67, 103
Muhammad Ali Shah 47, 49, 52–53
Muhammad Reza Shah xxii
accession to throne 97,
99
assassination attempt on, 1949 112
control over armed forces of 98–99, 117,
124–26
control over cabinets 128–30
control over parliaments 130–31
marriage of 92
upbringing of, 70
Muharram 5, 16–17, 94, 144, 161, 168
Mukhber al-Dowleh 13, 14, 51
Musher al-Dowleh 14, 40
Musher al-Dowleh (Pirnia) 48, 58
Muzaffar al-Din Shah 14, 41, 45, 46
Nasser al-Din Shah 4, 9, 39–40, 41
Nasser al-Mulk, Abul Qassem (Qarahgozlu) 53
Nasseri, General 126
National Front 115–16, 117–18, 122, 148,
162, 168
national identity 38–39, 44, 70,
194–95
National Iranian Oil Company 117, 127
National Party 115
Navab-Safavi, Mojtaba xxii, 170
newspapers 41, 46, 86, 108, 151, 186, 191
nomadic population 39, 58, 73–74, 133
Noshin 110
Nowruz (New Year) 19, 83, 178
nuclear program 15, 195
Nur 10
oil 38, 39, 55, 57, 96, 116–18
revenues under Islamic Republic 169, 175
revenues under Muhammad Reza Shah 123–24
revenues under Reza Shah 67
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