| Key | BIB32411 |
| Reference type | Book |
| Title | The Messiah of Shiraz : Studies in Early and Middle Babism |
| Series title | Iran Studies |
| Author | MacEoin, Denis Martin |
| Year | 2009 |
| Date | 2009 |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Place published | Leiden : Boston |
| Issue | 7. |
| ISBN | 9789004170353 (hardback : alk. paper). 9004170359 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| Abstract | 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 Ahmad al-Ahsa'i -- Sayyid Kazim Rashti -- From Shaykhism to Babism -- Some aspects of early Babi doctrine -- The Babi 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 Shaykhi reactions to the Bab and his claims -- Hierarchy, authority and eschatology in early Babi thought -- Divisions and authority claims in Babism (1850-1866) -- Trial of the Bab: Shi`ite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image -- The Babi concept of holy war -- From Babism to Baha'ism: problems of militancy, quietism, and conflation, in the construction of a religion -- Nineteenth-century Babi talismans -- Bab, Sayyed `Ali Mohammad Shirazi (1235/1819-1266/1850), the founder of Babism (q.v.) -- Babism -- Azali Babism -- Babi schisms -- Bayan (declaration, elucidation) -- Ahsa'i, Shaikh Ahmad B. Zayn-Al-Din, 1166-1241/1753-1826, Shi`ite 'alem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Shaykhi school of Shi`ism in Iran and Iraq -- Cosmogony and cosmology, theories of the origins and structure of the universe -- Balasari -- Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in nineteenth-century Shi`ism : the cases of Shaykhism and Babism -- Deconstructing and reconstructing the Shari`a: the Babi and Baha®i solutions to the problem of immutability -- Bayan-i Farsi exordium: translation |
| Notes | LC Control Number: 2008037566 Includes bibliographical references (p. [705]-732) and index |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | BABI FAITH; SHAYKHISM; AZALIS; HISTORY; CONTROVERSIAL |
| Number of pages | xxxvii, 738 |
| Series volume | v. 3 |
| File attachments | internal-pdf://4091520227/Maceoin - Messiah_Shiraz.pdf |
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