The messiah of Shiraz : studies in early and middle Babism /

The 19th century saw an enormous shift in the authority structure of Iranian and Iraqi Twelver Shiʿism, with the victory of a theological school (Usulism) that stressed the power of the clergy. This is well known. What is less well known is that there was a parallel development of authority in the S...

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Main Author: MacEoin, Denis, 1949-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Iran Studies 3.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004223042.

Subjects:

Babismus.

Babism > History.

Shaykhī > History.

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