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key	TYRJGAFK
title	The Messiah of Shiraz : Studies in Early and Middle Babism
author	MacEoin, Denis Martin
authority control	Denis MacEoin
item type	Book
publication year	2009
date	2009
ISBN	9789004170353 (hardback : alk. paper). 9004170359 (hardback : alk. paper)
abstract note	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
number pages	xxxvii, 738
series	Iran Studies
series number	v. 3
publisher	Brill
place	Leiden : Boston
language	English
manual tags	HISTORY; SHAYKHISM; CONTROVERSIAL; BABI FAITH; AZALIS

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