Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 738 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Iran studies,
1569-7401 ;
v. 3
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Iran studies ; v. 3.
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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 |
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Subject |
Babism -- History.
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Babism. |
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History. |
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Shaykhī -- History.
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Shaykhī. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: MacEoin, Denis, 1949- Messiah of Shiraz. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004170353 (DLC) 2008037566 (OCoLC)244058842 |
ISBN |
9789047443070 (electronic book) |
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9047443071 (electronic book) |
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9789004170353 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004170359 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004170353.i-740 |
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