عنوان

The messiah of Shiraz: studies in early and middle Babism

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

The messiah of Shiraz: studies in early and middle Babism

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden ; Boston

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Other Title Information

Iran studies,9651-1047

Other Title Information

v. 3

Text of Note

Based on author's 1979 thesis

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]705[-732( and index

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by Denis Martin MacEoin

Text of Note

Foreword -- Preface to 9791 thesis -- Preface to the published edition -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Epigraph -- Part one: From Shaykhism to Babism : a study in charismatic renewal in Shi'i Islam -- Introduction -- The religious background -- Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i -- Sayyid Kazim Rashti -- From Shaykhism to Babism -- Some aspects of early Babi doctrine -- The Babi da'wa among the Shaykhis and the break with Shaykhism -- Part two: Reflections on Shaykhism and Babism -- Changes in charismatic authority in Qajar Shi'ism -- Early Shaykhi reactions to the Bab and his claims -- Hierarchy, authority and eschatology in early Babi thought -- Divisions and authority claims in Babism )0581-6681( -- Trial of the Bab: Shiite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image -- The Babi concept of holy war -- From Babism to Bahaism: problems of militancy, quietism, and conflation, in the construction of a religion -- Nineteenth-century Babi talismans -- Bab, Sayyed Ali Mohammad Shirazi )5321/9181-6621/0581(, the founder of Babism )q.v.( -- Babism -- Azali Babism -- Babi schisms -- Bayan )declaration, elucidation( -- Ahsai, Shaikh Ahmad B. Zayn-Al-Din, 6611-1421/3571-6281, Shiite alem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Shaykhi school of Shiism in Iran and Iraq -- Cosmogony and cosmology, theories of the origins and structure of the universe -- Balasari -- Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in nineteenth-century Shiism : the cases of Shaykhism and Babism -- Deconstructing and reconstructing the Sharia: the Babi and Bahai solutions to the problem of immutability -- Bayan-i Farsi exordium: translation

Entry Element

History ، Babism

Entry Element

History ، Shaykhi

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Dates

9491-

Entry Element

MacEoin, Denis

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AU

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SE Iran studies