Shi`i Islam, Qajar Persia and the Babi and Baha'i religions


 

مشية  

Some notes on the Arabic term Mashiyya and associated Cosmogonical-theological hypostases

 in Shī`ī-Shaykhī and Bābī-Bahā'ī literarures

 

ولاية

Dimensions of Walāya in Shi`i-Shaykhi and Babi-Baha'i literatures

 

دعاء السمات

Biblical echoes of the Shī`i  Du`a al-simāt (Prayer of the Signs) and the Commentary of Sayyid Kāẓim al-Ḥusaynī al-Rashtī (d.1259/1843).

The Bābī-Baha’i Demythologization of Shī`ī messianism:

On the question of the reality of the twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi,

the  alleged son of  the 11th Imam, Ḥasan al-`Askarī   (d. 260/874) and Narjis Khanum.

 

  

  خطبة  الطتنجية 

The Khubat al-ṭutunjiyya [taanjiyya] ("Sermon of the Gulf")

 

The Babi and Baha’i Interpretation of the Khuṭbat al-Ṭutunjiyya  ascribed to  Imam `Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661).

 

خاتمية وَخَاتَمَ النَّبِيِّينَ

The Bābī‑ Bahā’ī  transcendence of  khātamiyya  (Q.33:40b), the finality of prophethood

مظهرية

Maẓhariyya:

The roots and  significance of the Bābī‑ Bahā’ī concept  of the maẓhar‑ i ilāhī  

("Divine theophany"/ "Manifestation of God").

دُعاء البَهَاء

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ بَهَائِكَ بِأَبْهَاهُ

 ...وَكُلُّ بَهَائِكَ بَهِيٌّ، اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِبَهَائِكَ كُلِّهِ

The Du`ā  Saḥar [al-bahā'] (Ramadan Dawn Prayer) of Muhammad al-Bāqir.

 

دُعاء يوم المباهلة 

The Du`ā' yawm al-mubāhala  ("Supplication for the Day of Mutual Execration")

a devotional work paralleling and closely related to the Du`ā' al-saḥar (Dawn supplication)

of Imam Muhammad al-Bāqir,  as  transmitted by Imām Ridā'

 

دُعاء الِسمَات

The Du`ā al-Simāt ("Prayer of the Signs")

from the 5th and 6th Imams, Arabic text English and translation