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.

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Call Number: BP340 .M328 2009

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Chapter One. The religious background /
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  • Chapter Two. Shaykh aḥmad Al-AḥsaʾĪ /
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  • Chapter Three. Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī /
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  • Chapter Four. From Shaykhism to Babism /
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  • Chapter Five. Some aspects of early Bābi doctrine /
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  • Chapter Six. The Bābī DaʿWa among the shaykhis and the break with Shaykhism /
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  • Changes in charismatic authority in Qajar Shiʿism /
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  • Early Shaykhī reactions to the Bāb and his claims /
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  • Hierarchy, authority and eschatology in early Bābī thought /
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  • Divisions and authority claims in Babism (1850-1866) /
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  • Trial of the Bāb: Shiʿite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image /
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  • The Babi concept of Holy War /
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  • From Babism to Bahaʾism: Problems of militancy, quietism, and conflation in the construction of a religion /
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  • Nineteenth-century Bābī talismans /
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  • Bāb, sayyed ʿAlī Moḥammad Shīrāzī (1235/1819-1266/1850), the founder of Babism (Q.V.) /
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  • Babism /
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  • BābĪ executions and uprisings /
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  • Azalī Babism /
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  • Bābī Schisms /
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  • Bayān (declaration, elucidation) /
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  • AḥsāʾĪ, Shaikh Aḥmad B. Zayn-Al-Dīn, 1166-1241/1753-1826, ShiʿiteʿĀlem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Shaykhī School of Shiʿism in Iran and Iraq /
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  • Cosmogony and cosmology, theories of the origins and structure of the Universe /
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  • Bālāsarī /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in nineteenth-century Shiʿism: The cases of Shaykhism and Babism /
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  • Deconstructing and reconstructing the Sharīʿa: The Bābī and Bahāʾī solutions to the problem of immutability /
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  • Bayān-i Fārsī exordium. Translation /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index /
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