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In Persia, moreover, apart from sporadic outbreaks of persecution in such places as Shiraz, Abadih, Ardibil, Isfahan, and in certain districts of Adhirbayjan and Khurasan-- outbreaks greatly reduced in number and violence, owing to the marked decline in the fortunes of the erstwhile powerful Shi'ah ecclesiastics-- the institutions of a newly- established and as yet unconsolidated Administrative Order were subjected by the civil authorities, in both the capital and the provinces, to restrictions designed to circumscribe their scope, to fetter their freedom and undermine their foundations.
(362:1)
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