IRAN-MIDDLE ASIAN RELATIONS IN THE XVIII - XIX CENTURY: INFLUENCE OF A RELIGIOUS FACTOR
One of the features of the relationship was between Iran and Central Asia in the XVIII - XIX centuries a confessional confrontation between the followers of Sunni and Shiism. The political disagreements, expressed in confessional intolerance and religious radicalism, once divided a single region into two states, each of which further developed. Rulers and clergy in both states were severely persecuted by followers of Sunni and Shiism. In addition to religious and confessional contradictions between the parties, there were territorial and border problems. The raids of the Bukhara and Khiva khanates was on the territory of Iran, under the pretext of a holy war, or jihad, were accompanied by the destruction and plunder of the civilian population and the mass capture of the Khorana’s and their subsequent sale in Bukhara and other cities of Central Asia. In the despite the existence of religious intolerance, diplomatic and trade-economic relations never ceased between the peoples of Iran and Central Asia.