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Author MacEoin, Denis, 1949-

Title The messiah of Shiraz : studies in early and middle Babism / by Denis Martin MacEoin.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 738 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Iran studies, 1569-7401 ; v. 3
Iran studies ; v. 3.
Note Based on author's 1979 thesis.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-732) and index.
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 Aḥmad al-Aḥsā'ī -- Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī -- From Shaykhism to Babism -- Some aspects of early Bābī doctrine -- The Bābī 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 Shaykhī reactions to the Bāb and his claims -- Hierarchy, authority and eschatology in early Bābī thought -- Divisions and authority claims in Babism (1850-1866) -- Trial of the Bāb: Shiʻite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image -- The Babi concept of holy war -- From Babism to Bahaʼism: problems of militancy, quietism, and conflation, in the construction of a religion -- Nineteenth-century Bābī talismans -- Bāb, Sayyed ʻAlī Moḥammad Shīrazī (1235/1819-1266/1850), the founder of Babism (q.v.) -- Babism -- Azalī Babism -- Bābī schisms -- Bayān (declaration, elucidation) -- Aḥsāʼī, Shaikh Aḥmad B. Zayn-Al-Dīn, 1166-1241/1753-1826, Shiʻite ʼālem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Shaykhī school of Shiʻism in Iran and Iraq -- Cosmogony and cosmology, theories of the origins and structure of the universe -- Bālāsarī -- Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in nineteenth-century Shiʻism : the cases of Shaykhism and Babism -- Deconstructing and reconstructing the Sharīʻa: the Bābī and Bahaʼ̄ī solutions to the problem of immutability -- Bayān-i Fārsī exordium: translation.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Babism -- History.
Babism.
History.
Shaykhī -- History.
Shaykhī.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: MacEoin, Denis, 1949- Messiah of Shiraz. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004170353 (DLC) 2008037566 (OCoLC)244058842
ISBN 9789047443070 (electronic book)
9047443071 (electronic book)
9789004170353 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004170359 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004170353.i-740