Bibliography: BIB36357

Key	BIB36357
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	Olitsetrovenie bukv basmaly i miry bytiia v verouchenii babizma
Journal	Pis'mennye Pamiatniki Vostoka
Translated title	The Symbolic Personification of the Letters of Basmala and the Realms of Being in the Babi Teaching
Author	Ioannesian, IU. A.
Year	2017
Date	Vesna 2017
Issue	1 (28)
Volume	14
Abstract	The Bab, founder of the Babi Faith, widely employed the symbolism of letters and numbers in his writings, applying the term “letter” to humans, especially, to his first disciples, who together with the founder of the religious teaching formed the “first Unity” consisting of nineteen people. The Bab drew correlations between worlds/realms of being, colors, spiritual realities of human nature and types of revelation, which, according to the Bab, were reflected symbolically in various words of the Babi and Islamic basmala. The article explores these issues, based on primary sources including manuscripts from the IOM collection, and on the results of recent studies in the field, tracing such symbolic correlations.
Language	Russian
Keywords	BAB; QURAN. 1 BISMI'LLAH; NINETEEN (THE NUMBER); SYMBOLISM; LETTERS OF THE LIVING
Pages	29–39
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