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The messiah of Shiraz : studies in early and middle Babism /
"The 19th century saw an enormous shift in the authority structure of Iranian and Iraqi Twelver Shi'ism, with the victory of a theological school (Usulism) that stressed the power of the clergy. This is well known. What is less well known is that there was a parallel development of authori...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | Iran studies ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.