Mosques provided the only possible meeting places in which the coalition of resistance forces could meet, and they provided a ready platform for the communication of Islamic ideology. With civic space eliminated by the Shah in order to force development upon resistant Iranians, civil society moved into the mosques.

— Richard A. Horsley Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003)

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