Tag Archives: Reinhold Loeffler

Rural Life in Iran Before and After the Islamic Revolution

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Muller

Can the lives of people in Iranian villages in the late 1970s and 1980s be compared with what ordinary people in rural Iran experience these days? I have come across the work of ethnographers/anthropologists Erika Friedl and her husband’s Reinhold … Continue reading →

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Funeral

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Muller

In a ” decapitation strike” in the early hours of the unprovoked war on Iran, U.S. and Israeli bombs killed the Iranian Supreme Leader, 86-yr-old Ali Khamenei. In addition, probably forty of senior Iranian leaders and officials. Moreover, many family … Continue reading →

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Strong Beliefs

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Muller

When recently reading with growing interest Patricia Crone’s latest book about The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran – Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012) I came across a most unlikely reference, Reinhold Loeffler’s interviews of Boyer … Continue reading →

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