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Tag: "Hidden Imam"

tag name: Hidden Imam type: Religions, Middle Eastern
web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Hidden_Imam
related tags: 1260; Mahdi (Mihdi); Occultation; Qá'im; Twelfth Imam
referring tags: Báb (Gate); Jabulqa and Jabulsa
Inventory subject: The Twelfth Imam; the Qa'im
notes: The Hidden Imam is the Twelfth Imam in Shia Islam who went into occultation around 260 AH (874 CE), expected to return as the Qa'im and Mahdi. The Báb declared His mission in the year 1260 AH (1844 CE), exactly 1000 lunar years later.
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occultation_(Islam); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bábism#Hidden_Imam; bahaipedia.org/Bábí_religion#Hidden_Imam; bahai9.com/wiki/Imám_Muhammad; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Hidden Imam

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  1. 2025-10. Báb's Epistle Refuting the Claims to the Station of Bābiyyat (Gatehood), The. The Báb, Mohammad Norozi, trans. . — On the wisdom underlying the Bab's early declarations and the measured manner in which He unveiled H...
  2. 2025. Qur'án in Bahá'í Writings, The. Todd Lawson, Necati Alkan. — Overview of the place of the Qur'an in Baha'i theology and hermeneutics, and as featured in the writ...
  3. 2023. Role of Wonder in Creating Identity, The. Todd Lawson. — The term badi', "wondrous" or "new," is used dozens of times by the Bab in his proclamatory work the...
  4. 2023. Báb and 'Alí Muhammad, Islamic and Post-Islamic, The: Multiple Meanings in the Writings of Sayyid 'Alí Muhammad Shírází (1819-1850). Zackery Mirza Heern. — Writings of the Bab can be understood as a commentary on the Qur'an, the original Qur'an, and divine...
  5. 2020-04-10. Writings of the Báb, The: Notes from Talks given by Dr. Nader Saiedi. Nader Saiedi, Anonymous, comp. . — Structured summarized notes from Dr. Saiedi’s 2019 talks on the Bab’s Writings, delivered at the...
  6. 2019. Writings of the Báb: Lecture Series at the Norwegian Summer School. Nader Saiedi. — On topics including the concept of God; Manifestations of God; Day of Resurrection, heaven and hell;...
  7. 2019. Analysis of the Salient Features of Risáliy-i-Ja'faríyyih, An. Foad Seddigh. — This treatise, one of the major writings of the Báb, was written before He had disclosed His compl...
  8. 2018. Kitáb-i-Iqán, The: Revolutionizing the Concepts of Religion, Eschatology and Theology. Sohrab Kourosh. — The Kitab-i-Íqan resolves and removes eschatological barriers and establishes the fundamentals of a...
  9. 2016. Fire and Light in the Báb's Tablet Proclaiming to be the Qá'im. Nader Saiedi.
  10. 2016. A Tablet from 'Abduʼl-Bahá regarding the Twelfth Imám. Abdu'l-Bahá, Adib Masumian, trans. . — On apparently-conflicting hadiths (sayings ascribed to the prophet Muhammad) regarding the Hidden Im...
  11. 2016. Regarding Jaʻfar-i-Kadhdháb ('Jaʻfar the Liar'). Bahá'u'lláh, Adib Masumian, trans. . — One-paragraph passage about the mystical cities Jabulqa and Jabulsa and the truthfulness of a figure...
  12. 2015. One Who Related the Existence of the Qáʼim, The. Bahá'u'lláh, Adib Masumian, trans. . — One-paragraph passage related to the coming of the Mahdi.
  13. 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. — A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Baha'i history, key writings, and the need for schola...
  14. 2012. Most Noble Pattern, A: Collected Essays on the Writings of the Báb, `Alí Muhammad Shirazi (1819-1850). Todd Lawson, ed, Omid Ghaemmaghami, ed. — Sixteen essays by many of the leading specialists on the sometimes very difficult and challenging wr...
  15. 2009-2025. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Texts. Adib Masumian, trans. — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
  16. 2005. Messianic Roots of Babi-Bahá'í Globalism, The. Stephen Lambden. — Contrast of the continuity between the globalism of the Bab’s Qayyum al-asma’ and Baha’u’lla...
  17. 2004. Logos, Mythos and Kerygma: The Logic of Reconciliation and the Occultation of the Promised Qá'im in Bábí-Bahá'í Scripture. Ismael Velasco. — Theological background of the Twelfth Imam in Shi'i Islam, comprehensive interpretation of Baha'u'll...
  18. 2000. Resurgence of Apocalyptic in Modern Islam. Abbas Amanat. — Shi'i Mahdism, beliefs on the end of time, and overview of the rise of the Babi Faith.
  19. 1999 Spring. Conversion of the Great-Uncle of the Báb, The. Ahang Rabbani. — The history of Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad (1798-1876), maternal uncle of the Bab.
  20. 1997-06. Questions of Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad occasioning the Revelation of the Kitab-i-Iqan. Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad, Denis MacEoin, trans. . — Translation of the questions submitted to Baha'u'llah by Haji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad, the maternal un...
  21. 1997. Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation: Imami Shiʿism Circa 280-290 A. H./900 A. D.. Said Amir Arjomand. — Examination of the end of the 9th century and events following the death of the eleventh Imam, and t...
  22. 1996-11. Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiism, The: A Sociohistorical Perspective. Said Amir Arjomand. — Background of the history and theology of concepts like Qa'im, Mahdi, ghayba, and the hidden twelfth...
  23. 1996. Consolation of Theology, The: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shi'ism. Said Amir Arjomand. — Overview of the Shi'i doctrine of occultation, or the "Hidden Imam," and how this idea evolved into ...
  24. 1995. Shi`i Islam. Moojan Momen. — Overview of Shi'a Islam, including a section on its relations to the Baha'i Faith.
  25. 1982-2023. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history. Encyclopaedia Iranica. — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
  26. 1969. Bábism, Bahá'ism and the Ulama. Hamid Algar. — On the differing approaches by the Iranian state and the clergy to the Babi movement.
 
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