The messiah of Shiraz : : studies in early and middle Babism / / by Denis Martin MacEoin.
The 19th century saw an enormous shift in the authority structure of Iranian and Iraqi Twelver Shiʿism, 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 authority in the S...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009. |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Iran Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (780 p.) |
| Notes: | Based on author's 1979 thesis. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / D. Maceoin
- Introduction / D. Maceoin
- Chapter One. The religious background / D. Maceoin
- Chapter Two. Shaykh aḥmad Al-AḥsaʾĪ / D. Maceoin
- Chapter Three. Sayyid Kāẓim Rashtī / D. Maceoin
- Chapter Four. From Shaykhism to Babism / D. Maceoin
- Chapter Five. Some aspects of early Bābi doctrine / D. Maceoin
- Chapter Six. The Bābī DaʿWa among the shaykhis and the break with Shaykhism / D. Maceoin
- Changes in charismatic authority in Qajar Shiʿism / D. Maceoin
- Early Shaykhī reactions to the Bāb and his claims / D. Maceoin
- Hierarchy, authority and eschatology in early Bābī thought / D. Maceoin
- Divisions and authority claims in Babism (1850–1866) / D. Maceoin
- Trial of the Bāb: Shiʿite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image / D. Maceoin
- The Babi concept of Holy War / D. Maceoin
- From Babism to Bahaʾism: Problems of militancy, quietism, and conflation in the construction of a religion / D. Maceoin
- Nineteenth-century Bābī talismans / D. Maceoin
- Bāb, sayyed ʿAlī Moḥammad Shīrāzī (1235/1819–1266/1850), the founder of Babism (Q.V.) / D. Maceoin
- Babism / D. Maceoin
- BābĪ executions and uprisings / D. Maceoin
- Azalī Babism / D. Maceoin
- Bābī Schisms / D. Maceoin
- Bayān (declaration, elucidation) / D. Maceoin
- AḥsāʾĪ, Shaikh Aḥmad B. Zayn-Al-Dīn, 1166–1241/1753–1826, ShiʿiteʿĀlem and philosopher and unintending originator of the Shaykhī School of Shiʿism in Iran and Iraq / D. Maceoin
- Cosmogony and cosmology, theories of the origins and structure of the Universe / D. Maceoin
- Bālāsarī / D. Maceoin
- Bibliography / D. Maceoin
- Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in nineteenth-century Shiʿism: The cases of Shaykhism and Babism / D. Maceoin
- Deconstructing and reconstructing the Sharīʿa: The Bābī and Bahāʾī solutions to the problem of immutability / D. Maceoin
- Bayān-i Fārsī exordium. Translation / D. Maceoin
- Bibliography / D. Maceoin
- Index / D. Maceoin.