Jadīd al-Islām the Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed - Patai, Raphael 1910-1996 (Wayne State University Press, 1997)
Contents: Early times – Before the Allahdād – The Sūfī lure – Allahdād! – After the Allahdād – Conversions to the Bahai faith – A decade of blood libels and other incidents, 1892-1902 – Zionism and early ʻAliya – Disturbances in the 1940s – A picture of Jewish life – Emigration, ʻAliya, dispersion – A Meshhed Jewish family: Āqā Farajullah's memoirs – A popular "life of nadir" – Three tales about Mullah Siman-Tov – Two stories about the Jews of Kalat – How the Herāt Jews were saved – The story of the woman Gohar – The death of Ḥājj Ḥasan Eṣḥaq. Birth customs – Jewish names and origins – The secret school (Hebrew education) – Girls' games – Ritual observances – Marriage – Burial customs