Bibliography 2: #BIB36315

Key	BIB36315
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	The Conceptualization of Wilāya in the Bābī and Bahāʾī Texts : From Messianic Claims to Secular Institutionalization of Guardianship
Journal	Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Author	Chamankhah, Leila
Year	2017
Date	Summer 2017
Issue	4
Volume	40
Abstract	The death of Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī, the second Shaykhī leader in 1259/1843 was thebeginning of a number of crisis over the leadership of the Shaykhī community. All of the brands of Shaykhīsm which appeared after him shared the messianic fervor of their Shaykhī heritage, and one of them, Bābīsm, significantly added to it. Wilāya is a key concept in the writings of the Bāb, though he never uses the term walī for himself. As it will be observed in the following, in his conceptualizations of the office of wilāya, the Bāb remains faithful to the confine of Shī'īsm, in which, imām is walī and ḥujja of God on the earth, and the Bābī Cause is but the continuation of the legitimacy and charisma of the Hidden Imām. Wilāya, however, finds a new angle in the Bahā'ī writings, in the sense that, it is not only institutionalized in the office of Wilāyat-i Amrillāh (the Guardianship of the Cause of God), but also comes to be secularized.
Research notes	Attachment is not an exact copy of the article as taken from the publication.
Language	English
Keywords	GUARDIANSHIP; AUTHORITY; MESSIANISM; BABI FAITH
Pages	43–62
Legal note	11.
File attachments	internal-pdf://0990016422/Chamankhah - Conceptualization_Wilaya_Babi_Bah.pdf

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