Bibliography 2: #BIB00149

Key	BIB00149
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	Persia and Her Kings (I)
Journal	The Sunday at Home : A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading (London)
Author	Lake, R. E.
Year	1873
Date	July 12, 1873
Issue	1002
Notes	"Babyism:" (with a macron over the 'a') pp. 439-440 "...indications are not wanting that Mahommedanism is as a house divided against itself. As an instance of this, we may refer to the rise and progress of the religion of the Babys, which although now proscribed in Persia, reckons its followers by thousands, and even by hundreds of thousands. The founder, Syud Ali Mahommed, although claiming descent from the prophet Mahomet, was the son of a grocer of Shiraz.... In a short time the Babys became so numerous that in the reign of Mahommed Shah a decree was issued by the chief religious authorities in Persia making it a capital crime for any one to profess the tenets of the false prophet, Ali Mahommed.... Desperate was the courage displayed by the Babys in the defence of Zinjan, and the women, like the maidens of Saragossa, vied with the men in deeds of valour; but all was in vain, for, after many months, the Babys were overcome, and all the defenders who survived -- men, women, and children -- were ruthlessly butchered by the royal troops.... The result of all this cruelty was to create a feeling of sympathy for the Babys, whoso crime [attempt on the life of the Shah] was lost sight of in the cruel punishment inflicted upon them. And Babyism is by no means extinguished in Persia; it only smoulders in secret to burst out some day in an open flame." From part I of a four-part article spanning weekly issues from July to Sept. 1873.
Language	English
Keywords	IRAN; KINGS AND RULERS; MISSIONS; MISSIONARIES
Pages	436–440
Legal note	11.

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