The Messiah of Shiraz: Studies in Early and Middle BabismBRILL, 2009 - 738 pages The 19th century saw an enormous shift in the authority structure of Iranian and Iraqi Twelver Shi ism, 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 Shaykhi school and its offshoot, the Babi sect. Here, especially in later forms of Babism, the Shi ite claim to charismatic authority reached its limits in hyperbolic attestations of divinity. The present text is in two parts: a study of how Shaykhism bifurcated into a form close to orthodoxy next to the highly unorthodox Babi movement. Part two examines how Babism changed after the death in 1850 of its founder, the B b. |
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Introduction | 3 |
The Religious Background | 9 |
Shaykh Ahmad alAhsäï | 59 |
Sayyid Käzim Rashtï | 107 |
From Shaykhism to Babism | 139 |
Some Aspects of Early Bäbï Doctrine | 173 |
Break with Shaykhism | 203 |
PART TWO REFLECTIONS ON SHAYKHISM AND BABISM | 251 |
NineteenthCentury Bäbï Talismans | 537 |
Bäb Sayyed Alï Mohammad Shïräzï 1235181912661850 The Founder of Babism qv | 559 |
Babism | 573 |
Azalï Babism | 591 |
Bäbï Schisms | 597 |
Bayän declaration elucidation | 599 |
Ahsäï Shaikh Ahmad B ZaynAlDïn 1166124117531826 Shiite älem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Shaykhï school of Shiism in ... | 607 |
Cosmogony and Cosmology theories of the origins and structure of the universe | 619 |
Changes in charismatic authority in Qajar Shiism | 253 |
Early Shaykhï Reactions to the Bäb and his Claims | 285 |
Hierarchy Authority and Eschatology in Early Bäbï Thought | 325 |
Divisions and Authority Claims in Babism 18501866 | 369 |
Shiite Orthodoxy Confronts its Mirror Image | 409 |
The Babi Concept of Holy War | 451 |
Problems of Militancy Quietism and Conflation in the Construction of a Religion | 495 |
Bäläsarï | 625 |
The Cases of Shaykhism and Babism | 631 |
the Bäbï and Bahäï Solutions to the Problem of Immutability | 645 |
Bayäni Färsï Exordium Translation | 659 |
Bibliography | 705 |
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