Bábist Religion
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A Bábist Religion is an monotheistic religion founded by The Báb (1819-1850).
- AKA: Bayání Faith.
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- See: Abrahamic Religions, Monotheism, Ottoman Empire.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bábism Retrieved:2017-10-22.
- Bábism(, Babiyye), also known as the Bayání Faith [1] [2] (Arabic: , Bayání), is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion which professes that there is one incorporeal, unknown, and incomprehensible God [3] [4] Who manifests His Will in an unending series of theophanies, called Manifestations of God (Arabic:). It is an extremely small religion, with no more than a few thousand adherents according to current estimates, most of which are concentrated in Iran. [5] It was founded by ‘Ali Muhammad Shirazi who first assumed the title of Báb ( "Gate") from which the religion gets its name, out of the belief that he was the gate to the Twelfth Imam. However throughout his ministry his titles and claims underwent much evolution as the Báb progressively outlined his teachings.[6]
Founded in 1844, Bábism flourished in Persia until 1852, then lingered on in exile in the Ottoman Empire, especially Cyprus, as well as underground. An anomaly amongst Islamic messianic movements, the Bábí movement signaled a break with Islam, beginning a new religious system with its own unique laws, teachings, and practices. While Bábism was violently opposed by both clerical and government establishments, it led to the founding of the Bahá'í Faith, whose followers consider the religion founded by the Báb as a predecessor to their own.
- Bábism(, Babiyye), also known as the Bayání Faith [1] [2] (Arabic: , Bayání), is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion which professes that there is one incorporeal, unknown, and incomprehensible God [3] [4] Who manifests His Will in an unending series of theophanies, called Manifestations of God (Arabic:). It is an extremely small religion, with no more than a few thousand adherents according to current estimates, most of which are concentrated in Iran. [5] It was founded by ‘Ali Muhammad Shirazi who first assumed the title of Báb ( "Gate") from which the religion gets its name, out of the belief that he was the gate to the Twelfth Imam. However throughout his ministry his titles and claims underwent much evolution as the Báb progressively outlined his teachings.[6]
- ↑ This has been the standard term which the modern followers of Bábism have adopted in order to identify themselves, however it has not been popular within scholarship, modern and contemporary to the religion's founders, the majority of scholars — such as Browne for instance — choosing to refer to the religion as Bábism or the Bábí Faith
- ↑ Varnava, Andrekos, Nicholas Coureas, and Marina Elia, eds. The Minorities of Cyprus: Development patterns and the identity of the internal-exclusion. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. p. 362
- ↑ Báb, The (1848). Persian Bayán, Exordium.
- ↑ Browne, E.G. Kitab-i-Nuqtatu'l-Kaf, p. 15
- ↑ Barret (2001), p. 246
- ↑ Lambden, Stephen. The Evolving Clains and Titles of Mirza `Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bab (1819-1850 CE)
2016
- https://iranian.com/main/blog/nur/bayani-community-iran.html
- QUOTE: … It was the Baha’i patriarch ‘Abbas Effendi ‘Abdu’l-Baha (d. 1921) who first coined the term Azali as a sectarian slur to cast the adherents of the Bayan as exclusive followers of Subh-i-Azal rather than as followers of the Bayan and Subh-i-Azal as the mirror and successor of the Bab. Unfortunately the term has since stuck in the popular consciousness, yet it is not the term its adherents have ever known themselves by.