Bibliography: BIB01065

Key	BIB01065
Reference type	Journal Article
Journal	The Nation (New York)
Year	1911
Date	Aug. 24, 1911
Issue	2408
Volume	93
Notes	"Babites:" p. 169. "Another illustration of the same tendency [of Islam to limit freedom of thought and action] is the fact here brought out (p. 302) that Beha and his followers often loosely called the Babites, although we should expect to find them in the liberal camp, are frank opponents of the recent revolutions in Turkey and Persia. In Prof. E. G. Browne's 'Persian Revolution' (pp. 424-429) the same paradox is discussed, and the view is urged that Beha enjoined upon his followers abstention from political activity because their aims should be wholly spiritual. Yet there cannot be much doubt that a party led by an inspired and almost divine leader cannot logically act and choose for itself, and the utterances of Beha himself indicate a genuinely legitimistic dislike of the new word and idea, hurriya, 'freedom.'"
Reviewed item	Vorlesungen über den Islam / Von Ignaz Goldziher. -- Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung
Language	English
Keywords	GOLDZIHER, IGNAZ; ISLAM
Pages	168–169
Legal note	11.