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The Messiah of Shiraz
Denis MacEoin
其他書名
Studies in Early and Middle Babism
出版BRILL, 2009
主題Religion / Islam / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Urban & Regional
ISBN97890041703539004170359
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LgOPsxZofrkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 authority in the Shaykhi school and its offshoot, the Babi sect. Here, especially in later forms of Babism, the Shi ite claim to charismatic authority reached its limits in hyperbolic attestations of divinity. The present text is in two parts: a study of how Shaykhism bifurcated into a form close to orthodoxy next to the highly unorthodox Babi movement. Part two examines how Babism changed after the death in 1850 of its founder, the B b.