Shabnameh

A shabnama (Persian: شبنامه‎, lit. 'night letter') is a pamphlet communicating warnings or direction, which are surreptitiously distributed.[1]

Shabnama have been found throughout Iranian history. An early 20th century example would be following the Persian Constitutional Revolution, when shabnameh were distributed in Tehran decrying the occupation of parts of Iranian territory by Russian troops,[2] and against the changing of the legal examination laws.[3]

See also
  • Night letter
  • Samizdat - self-published surreptitiously distributed dissident literature in the Soviet era

References
  1. Rory Carroll $100,000 bounty on Westerners The Observer (UK). 7 April 2002.
  2. Stephanie Cronin (2013). Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800. Routledge. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-0-415-62433-6.
  3. Hadi Enayat (18 July 2013). Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy, and Legal Reform, 1906-1941. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-1-137-28203-3.

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