Bibliography: BIB00187

Key	BIB00187
Reference type	Book
Title	Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion : Persia
Author	Johnson, Samuel
Year	1885
Date	1885
Publisher	Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. : Cambridge : The Riverside Press,
Place published	Boston, Mass.
Issue	10.
Original publication	1884
Notes	Bâbism: p. 620-621. "Mirza Ali Mohammed, of Shiraz, founder of Bâbism (1842), the political pantheism of the Persian masses at the present time, declared, 'He who would know the way to God can go only by me.'2 His preaching against the Mollahs and their traditions resulted, contrary to his desires, in armed rebellion; whence came terrible persecutions, and a record of heroic martyrdom unsurpassed in history, in which his own (1849) was the most noble and touching instance.3 His pure theology and ethics, — in many respects the crown of Sufism, — his justice to the social relations, and to a love of order and peace which rebuked the fanatical passion of his followers, were really an advance on the Koran itself; and it seems by no means without reason that the Prophet is wholly ignored by him in the interest of these higher spiritual conceptions. Note 3: "See a full account of the Bâb, in Gobineau's Religions de l'Asie Centrale (sic), p. 267." The author died before he could complete this last of 3 volumes. Frothingham, O. B.: introduction
Language	English
Keywords	RELIGION; COMPARATIVE RELIGION; IRAN
Number of pages	xliv, 782, [1]