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From Babism to Bahá'ísm

Author	Denis MacEoin
Title of item	From Babism to Bahá'ísm
Subtitle of item	Problems of Militancy, Quietism, and Conflation in the Construction of a Religion
Volume	13:3
Pages	219-55
Parent publication	Religion
Date of this edition	1983
Language	English
Permission	author
Scanned	1997 by Steve Marshall
Posted	1997 by Jonah Winters
Proofread	1997 by Alison Marshall
Formatted	1997 by Alison Marshall
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/maceoin_babism_militancy
Abstract	One of the first critical examinations of Bábí history; a continuation of themes first examined in "The Bábí Concept of Holy War." Includes examination of the numbers of Bábí martyrs, the nature of Orientalism, and Western re-interpretations of the Babis.
Notes	Also available as a PDF scan of the original document. See follow-up discussions of this article listed at Debates between MacEoin et al.
Tags	Babism; Criticism and apologetics; Jihad (Holy War); Taqiyyah (dissimulation)
Cross-references	See also The Bábí Concept of Holy War.
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Last edited	2015-10-01 19:59 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs.

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