| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 738 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Iran studies, 1569-7401 ; v. 3 |
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Iran studies ; v. 3.
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| Contents |
Foreword -- Preface to 1979 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 Aḥmad al-Aḥsā'ī -- Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī -- From Shaykhism to Babism -- Some aspects of early Bābī doctrine -- The Bābī 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 Shaykhī reactions to the Bāb and his claims -- Hierarchy, authority and eschatology in early Bābī thought -- Divisions and authority claims in Babism (1850-1866) -- Trial of the Bāb: Shiʻite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image -- The Babi concept of holy war -- From Babism to Bahaʼism: problems of militancy, quietism, and conflation, in the construction of a religion -- Nineteenth-century Bābī talismans -- Bāb, Sayyed ʻAlī Moḥammad Shīrazī (1235/1819-1266/1850), the founder of Babism (q.v.) -- Babism -- Azalī Babism -- Bābī schisms -- Bayān (declaration, elucidation) -- Aḥsāʼī, Shaikh Aḥmad B. Zayn-Al-Dīn, 1166-1241/1753-1826, Shiʻite ʼālem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Shaykhī school of Shiʻism in Iran and Iraq -- Cosmogony and cosmology, theories of the origins and structure of the universe -- Bālāsarī -- Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in nineteenth-century Shiʻism : the cases of Shaykhism and Babism -- Deconstructing and reconstructing the Sharīʻa: the Bābī and Bahaʼ̄ī solutions to the problem of immutability -- Bayān-i Fārsī exordium: translation |
| Summary |
"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 Bab."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-732) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Babism -- History
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Shaykhī -- History
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Babism
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Shaykhī
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Babismus
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047443070 |
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9047443071 |
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